Claudius
c. 10 BCE–c. 54 CE · Lyon
Julio-Claudian emperor (r. 41-54 CE) and prolific scholar-historian whose forces invaded and annexed Britain. On his accession in 41 CE he relied on the support of the Jewish king Herod Agrippa I, a grandson of Herod the Great, whom he confirmed in his existing realm and to whom he added Judea and Samaria, reuniting much of Herod the Great's old kingdom. Suetonius records that Claudius later expelled Jews from Rome amid disturbances "at the instigation of Chrestus," a measure also referenced in the Christian book of Acts (18:2) in connection with Aquila and Priscilla, though its scope, the identity of "Chrestus," and its exact date (variously placed c. 41 or c. 49 CE) are debated.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Claudius’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Seneca the Elder· 54 BCE–39 CE
- Ovid· 43 BCE–17 CE
- Tiberius· 42 BCE–37 CE
- Isidore of Charax· 40 BCE–20 CE
- Aristonicus of Alexandria· 35 BCE–25 CE
- Celsus· 25 BCE–50 CE
- Valerius Maximus· 20 BCE–50 CE
- Phaedrus· 15 BCE–50 CE
- Seneca· 4 BCE–65 CE
- Galba· 3 BCE–69 CE
- Columella· 4 CE–70 CE
- Vespasian· 9 CE–79 CE
- Caligula· 12 CE–41 CE
- Aelius Theon· 15 CE–55 CE
- Vitellius· 15 CE–69 CE
- Curtius Rufus· 15 CE–75 CE
- Pliny the Elder· 24 CE–79 CE
- Dorotheus of Sidon· 25 CE–90 CE
- Petronius Arbiter· 27 CE–66 CE
- Hero of Alexandria· 27 CE–67 CE
- Otho· 32 CE–69 CE
- Persius· 34 CE–62 CE
- Nero· 37 CE–68 CE
- Lucan· 39 CE–65 CE
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