Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 224 BC?

30 of the people we track were surely alive in 224 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.

Events in 224 BC

  1. Archimedes61–66
  2. Qin Shi Huang35–36
  3. Hannibal23
  4. Eratosthenes52–53
  5. Plautus26–27
  6. Cato the Elder8–13
  7. Apollonius of Perga36–41
  8. Scipio Africanus9–14
  9. Ennius15
  10. Emperor Gaozu of Han32–33
  11. Apollonius of Rhodes66–72
  12. Antiochus III the Great16–21
  13. Livius Andronicus53–58
  14. Chrysippus57–58
  15. Ptolemy III Euergetes60
  16. Ptolemy IV Philopator20
  17. Li Si56
  18. Gnaeus Naevius51
  19. Masinissa14–15
  20. Philip V of Macedon14–15
  21. Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus1–6
  22. Modu Chanyu10–11
  23. Xiang Yu8
  24. Hiero II of Syracuse84
  25. Ctesibius57–62
  26. Attalus I45–46
  27. Hasdrubal Barca21–22
  28. Seleucus III Ceraunus19–20
  29. Berenice II42–43
  30. Hasdrubal the Fair46–47

Where the people alive in 224 BC were born

The 30 best known of those alive in 224 BC. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (24 of 30 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list