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Flourished 116 BCE - 96 BCE
Title / Office king (116BC-96BC), Cyrenaica
Attalus III Philometor Euergetes
king of Pergamum
Augustus
Augustus
Roman emperor
Pompey
Pompey the Great
Roman statesman
Bust of Vespasian, found at Ostia; in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
Vespasian
Roman emperor
Trajan
Trajan
Roman emperor
Polybius, statue in Vienna.
Polybius
Greek historian
Shāpūr I
king of Persia
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
queen of Egypt
Lucius Julius Caesar
Roman consul
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Roman ruler
Cicero
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
Diocletian
Diocletian
Roman emperor
Theodosius I
Theodosius I
Roman emperor
Scipio Africanus the Younger
Roman general
Silver coin from Carthago Nova, believed to be a portrait of Scipio Africanus the Elder; in the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, National Museum, Copenhagen.
Scipio Africanus
Roman general
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
emperor of Rome
Gaius Gracchus
Roman tribune
Theodor Mommsen.
Theodor Mommsen
German historian, philologist, and legal scholar
Gaius Marius
Gaius Marius
Roman general
Mark Antony marble bust
Mark Antony
Roman triumvir

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