Virgil
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70 BC – 19 BC · 51 years · Rome · Europe
Rome's greatest poet, author of the Aeneid, the national epic of the Trojan Aeneas, ancestor of the Romans.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Augustus — first Roman emperor, 7 years younger
- Julius Caesar — Roman general and dictator, 30 years older
- Cicero — Roman orator and statesman, 36 years older
- Pompey the Great — Roman general and statesman, 36 years older
- Livia Drusilla — wife of Augustus, first Roman empress, 11 years younger
Middle East
- Herod the Great — king of Judea, 2 years older
Africa
- Cleopatra — last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, 1 year younger
- Amanirenas — queen (kandake) of Kush, 10 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 58 BC–50 BC Caesar's conquest of Gaul — aged 12, Europe
- 44 BC Assassination of Julius Caesar — aged 26, Europe
- 31 BC Battle of Actium — aged 39, Europe
- 30 BC Death of Cleopatra — aged 40, Africa
- 27 BC Octavian becomes Augustus — aged 43, Europe