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José Luiz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Roman orator and statesman

106 BC – 43 BC · 63 years · Rome · Europe

Rome's greatest orator and master of Latin prose, who exposed Catiline's conspiracy; killed in the Second Triumvirate's proscriptions.

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Contemporaries around the world

Europe

Julius Caesar — Roman general and dictator, 6 years younger
Augustus — first Roman emperor, 43 years younger
Pompey the Great — Roman general and statesman, born the same year
Spartacus — gladiator, leader of a slave revolt, 3 years younger
Virgil — Roman poet, 36 years younger
Livia Drusilla — wife of Augustus, first Roman empress, 47 years younger

Middle East

Herod the Great — king of Judea, 34 years younger
Mithridates VI Eupator — king of Pontus, enemy of Rome, 29 years older

Africa

Cleopatra — last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, 37 years younger
Amanirenas — queen (kandake) of Kush, 46 years younger

Asia

Sima Qian — Chinese historian, 39 years older
Emperor Wu of Han — emperor of the Han dynasty, 50 years older

The world in their lifetime

58 BC–50 BC Caesar's conquest of Gaul — aged 48, Europe
44 BC Assassination of Julius Caesar — aged 62, Europe