the ledger of connections
The Connections of Trajan
13th Roman Emperor (98–117) Every person recorded alongside Trajan in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Trajan in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Marcus Ulpius Traianus, Marcia
- Spouses
- Pompeia Plotina
- Children
- Hadrian
- Siblings
- Ulpia Marciana
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 53 CE to 117 CE.

Ancient era
Paul the Apostle
5 CE – 66 CE
Early Christian apostle and missionary (c. AD 5 – c. 64/65)

Ancient era
Peter the Apostle
1 BCE – 65 CE
Apostle of Jesus Christ

Ancient era
Claudius Ptolemy
100 CE – 170 CE
2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer

Ancient era
Nero
December 15, 1937 CE – June 9, 1968 CE
Fifth and last Roman Emperor of Julio-Claudian dynasty (54–68)

Ancient era
Claudius
10 BCE – October 13, 1954 CE
Mayor of the Palace of Burgundy from 607 to 610

Ancient era
Hadrian
January 24, 1976 CE – July 10, 138 CE
14th Roman Emperor (117–138)

Ancient era
Boudicca
30 CE – 61 CE
Queen of the British Iceni tribe

Ancient era
Seneca the Younger
c. 4 BCE – April 12, 1965 CE
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BCE–65 CE)

Ancient era
Epictetus
50 CE – 138 CE
Greek Stoic philosopher (c. 50–c. 138)

Ancient era
Plutarch
c. 40 CE – c. 120 CE
Greek philosopher and historian (c. AD 46 – after AD 119)

Ancient era
Musa of Parthia
46 BCE – c. 100 CE
Italian consort of Phraates IV

Ancient era
Herod Antipas
b. 20 BCE
1st century AD tetrarch of Galilee and Perea