Significant People
- Burebista, king of Dacia
- Catiline, attempted to overthrow Roman Republic
- Cato the Younger, politician and statesman
- Caesar Augustus, Roman emperor
- Cicero, Roman politician and writer
- Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Egyptian ruler
- Herod the Great, king of Judea
- Hillel the Elder, Jewish rabbi
- Horace, Roman poet
- Jesus of Nazareth, The Son of God in various beliefs
- Jing Fang, Chinese mathematician and music theorist
- Julius Caesar, Roman general and politician
- Livy, Roman historian
- Lucius Licinius Lucullus, Roman general and politician
- Lucretius, Roman philosopher
- Marcus Antonius, Roman politician
- Marcus Licinius Crassus, Roman general and politician
- Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's adopted son, supposedly killed him
- Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman statesman and general
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Roman writer, architect and engineer
- Pompey Magnus, Roman general and politician
- Quintus Sertorius, Roman statesman and general
- Sextus Pompeius, Roman general and son of Pompey
- Ptolemy XIII of Egypt, drowned in Nile
- Ovid, Roman poet
- Virgil, Roman poet
- Spartacus, gladiator and insurgent leader of the Third Servile War
- Sima Qian, Chinese historian, father of Chinese historiography
- Tigranes the Great, king of Armenia
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