Roman emperor from 54 to 68 CE whose reign forms the political setting for the story and whose government persecuted Christians in Rome after the Great Fire.

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Boudica

30 → 61

Also known as Boadicea · Boadicee · Boadicéia

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Pliny the Elder

20 → 79

Also known as Caio Plínio Segundo · Caius Plinius Secundus · Caius P. Secundus

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Agrippina the Younger

06.11.15 → 17.03.59

Also known as Agripina · Agripina a Jovem · Agripina a Menor

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Caligula

31.08.12 → 24.01.41

Also known as Caius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus · Caligola · Cayo Julio Cesar Augusto Germanico

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Vespasian

17.11.9 → 04.06.79

Also known as Caesar Vespasianus Augustus · Emperor Vespasian · Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus

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Paul the Apostle

5 → 66

Also known as Apostel Paulus · Apostle Paul · apôtre Paul

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Saint Peter

1 p.n.e. → 65

Also known as Apostel Petrus · Apostle Peter · Apóstolo pedro

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Jesus of Nazareth

5 p.n.e. → 07.04.30

Also known as Christ · Christ Jesus · Christus

Jewish preacher whose ministry and crucifixion form the narrative center of the film.

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Aulus Plautius

5 p.n.e. → 57

Also known as Aulo Plaucio · Aulo Plauzio · Aulus Plaucjusz

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Claudius

01.08.10 p.n.e. → 13.10.54

Also known as Claude · Claude (empereur) · Claude I

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Pontius Pilate

12.12 p.n.e.

Also known as Marcus Pontius Pilatus · Piłat · Pilate

Roman prefect of Judea who presided over the authority responsible for Jesus’s crucifixion.

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Germanicus

24.05.15 p.n.e. → 10.10.19

Also known as Caesar Germanicus · Cæsar Germanicus · Gaio Giulio Cesare Claudiano Germanico

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Arminius

17 p.n.e. → 21

Also known as Armenius · Armin · Armin der Cherusker

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Herod Antipas

20 p.n.e.

Also known as Erode Antipa · Herod Antipatros · Herod Antypas

Ruler of Galilee during Jesus’s ministry and part of the regional political order under Roman supremacy.

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Tiberius

16.11.42 p.n.e. → 16.03.37

Also known as Caesar Tiberius · Emperor of Rome Tiberius · Emperor of Rome Tiberius Claudius Nero

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Jumong

58 p.n.e. → 19 p.n.e.

Also known as Chumo · Chumo the Holy · Dongmyeong

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Livia Drusilla

30.01.59 p.n.e. → 28.09.29

Also known as Diva Iulia · Diva Julia · Empress, consort of Augustus, Emperor of Rome Augusta

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Augustus

23.09.63 p.n.e. → 19.08.14

Also known as August · Auguste · Augusto

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Cleopatra VII

13.01.69 p.n.e. → 12.08.30 p.n.e.

Also known as Cleopatra · Cleopatra Filopator Nea Thea · Cleopatra Philopator

Last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt and a major participant in the final Roman republican conflicts.

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Mark Antony

83 p.n.e. → 30 p.n.e.

Also known as Marc Anthony · Marc Antoine · Marc Antony

Roman general and politician who became a leading Caesarian power-holder after 44 BCE.

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Julius Caesar

07.100 p.n.e. → 15.03.44 p.n.e.

Also known as Caio Giulio Cesare · Caius Iulius Caesar · Caius Julius Caesar

Roman general and dictator whose rise accelerated the collapse of the republican political order.

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Thusnelda

100 p.n.e. → 17

Also known as Tusnelda

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Spartacus

103 p.n.e. → 04.71 p.n.e.

Also known as Espartaco · Revolta espartaquista · Spártaco

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Pompey the Great

29.09.106 p.n.e. → 28.09.48 p.n.e.

Also known as Büyük Pompeius · Büyük Pompey · Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus

Roman general and statesman who opposed Caesar during the civil war.

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Marcus Licinius Crassus

115 p.n.e. → 08.06.53 p.n.e.

Also known as Craso · Crasso · Crassus

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Viriathus

180 p.n.e. → 139 p.n.e.

Also known as Audas · Ditalco · Minuros

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Hannibal

247 p.n.e. → 183 p.n.e.

Also known as Anibal · Anibal Barca · Annibal

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Qin Shi Huang

259 p.n.e. → 210 p.n.e.

Also known as Chao Cheng · Chi-hoang-ti · Ch'in Shih-huang

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Ashoka

304 p.n.e. → 232 p.n.e.

Also known as Açoka · Ascioca · Ashok

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King Zhaoxiang of Qin

325 p.n.e. → 251 p.n.e.

Also known as Zhaoxiang · Zhaoxiang de Qin

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Chandragupta Maurya

340 p.n.e. → 297 p.n.e.

Also known as Androkottos · Candragupta Maurja · Chandagupta Mauria

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Alexander the Great

20.07.356 p.n.e. → 10.06.323 p.n.e.

Also known as Alejandro · Alejandro de Macedonia · Alejandro III

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King Huiwen of Qin

356 p.n.e. → 311 p.n.e.

Also known as Huiwen · Huiwen de Qin · King Hui of Qin

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Chanakya

375 p.n.e. → 283 p.n.e.

Also known as Ćanakja Kautilja · Çanakya · Chanakia

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Duke Xiao of Qin

381 p.n.e. → 338 p.n.e.

Also known as Duc Xiao de Qin

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Pang Juan

385 p.n.e. → 342 p.n.e.

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Shang Yang

390 p.n.e. → 338 p.n.e.

Also known as Gongsun Yang · Kung-sun Jang · Szang Jang

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Zhang Yi

400 p.n.e. → 309 p.n.e.

Also known as Zhāng Yí

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Sun Bin

400 p.n.e. → 316 p.n.e.

Also known as Bìn Sūn · Qi Sun Zi · Qí Sūnzǐ

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Amrapali

450 p.n.e.

Also known as Ambapali

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Socrates

470 p.n.e. → 15.02.399 p.n.e.

Also known as Socrate · Sócrates de Atenas · Sokrates

Athenian philosopher whose questioning of conventional beliefs and public religious trial culminated in his execution in 399 BCE.

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Artemisia I of Caria

500 p.n.e.

Also known as Artemisa I · Artémise Ier · Artemise Ire

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Ajatashatru

500 p.n.e. → 460 p.n.e.

Also known as Ajatasatru · Ajātaśātru · Ajātaśatru, 494?-459?B. C.

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Xerxes I

519 p.n.e. → 08.465 p.n.e.

Also known as Chszajarsza · I. Serhas · Jerjes

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Themistocles

524 p.n.e. → 459 p.n.e.

Also known as Temistocle · Temistocles · Temístocles de Atenas

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Confucius

551 p.n.e. → 479 p.n.e.

Also known as Confucio · Confucious · Cong-fu-tse

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Tomyris

600 p.n.e.

Also known as Queen of the Massagetai Tomyris · Queen Tomiri · Tamiris

Queen of the Massagetae, known primarily from Herodotus’s account of the war with Cyrus II around 530 BCE.

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Cyrus II

600 p.n.e. → 530 p.n.e.

Also known as Ciro el Grande · Ciro II da Pérsia · Ciro II de Persia

Cyrus II, commonly known as Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire and ruler of Persia from approximately 559 to 530 BCE.

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Tutankhamun

1343 p.n.e. → 1324 p.n.e.

Also known as King Tut · Neb-cheper-re · rey Tut

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