Pompey the Great
106 BC – 48 BC · 58 years · Rome · Europe
Conqueror of the East and member of the First Triumvirate; lost the civil war to Caesar and was murdered in Egypt.
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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
- Cicero — Roman orator 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