Who Was Alive

Virgil

Roman poet (1st century BC)

Born 15 October 70 BC · died 21 September 19 BC, aged 50

Who was alive at the same time as Virgil?

  1. Cicero
  2. Pompey
  3. Julius Caesar
  4. Lucretius
  5. Catullus
  6. Mark Antony
  7. Vitruvius
  8. Cleopatra
  9. Virgil
  10. Strabo
  11. Horace
  12. Augustus
  13. Titus Livius
  14. Ovid
  15. Tiberius
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Virgil was born, Julius Caesar was 30, Cicero was 36, Lucretius was 23 or 24, Pompey was 36 and Mark Antony was 12 or 13.

When Virgil died, Augustus was 43, Ovid was 24, Horace was 45, Titus Livius was 39 or 40 and Tiberius was 22.

Born during Virgil’s lifetime: Augustus, Ovid, Horace, Titus Livius, Tiberius and Strabo.

Not quite contemporaries: Claudius was born 9 years after Virgil died and Spartacus died about a year before Virgil was born.

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