Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 185 BC?

21 of the people we track were surely alive in 185 BC. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year; a range such as 17–21 means the birth year itself is uncertain.

  1. Hannibal62
  2. Plautus65–66
  3. Cato the Elder47–52
  4. Terence0–6
  5. Polybius14–18
  6. Hipparchus3–8
  7. Scipio Africanus48–53
  8. Ennius54
  9. Antiochus IV Epiphanes28–33
  10. Ptolemy V Epiphanes25
  11. Mithridates I of Parthia10
  12. Carneades28–29
  13. Masinissa53–54
  14. Philip V of Macedon53–54
  15. Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus40–45
  16. Perseus of Macedon25–30
  17. Modu Chanyu49–50
  18. Eumenes II36
  19. Seleucus IV Philopator32–33
  20. Zhang Qian15
  21. Demetrius I Soter2–3

Where the people alive in 185 BC were born

The 21 best known of those alive in 185 BC. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (13 of 21 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list