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grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Their life expectancy wasn’t that great anyway compared to now

Low life expectancy has always been caused mostly by high infant and child mortality, not adults dying young of natural causes. Augustus and Tiberius lived well into their 70s, for example.

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Roman Born Died Approx. age Cause
Augustus 63 BC AD 14 75–76 Natural causes, probably illness
Agrippa 63 BC 12 BC About 50 Natural causes, probably illness
Maecenas c. 70 BC 8 BC About 62 Natural causes
Tiberius 42 BC AD 37 77–78 Probably natural causes, though ancient sources alleged foul play
Vespasian AD 9 AD 79 69–70 Natural illness
Titus AD 39 AD 81 41–42 Natural illness
Trajan AD 53 AD 117 63–64 Natural illness, possibly a stroke
Hadrian AD 76 AD 138 About 62 Natural illness
Marcus Aurelius AD 121 AD 180 58–59 Natural illness, probably infection
Constantine the Great AD 272 AD 337 About 65 Natural illness
Virgil 70 BC 19 BC 50–51 Natural illness
Ovid 43 BC AD 17 About 59–60 Probably natural causes
Galen AD 129 c. AD 216 About 87 Probably natural causes

Excluded: Julius Caesar, Pompey, Cicero, Caligula, Domitian, Commodus, and others who were assassinated, executed, killed in battle, or died by suicide. Claudius is also excluded because he was probably poisoned, and Pliny the Elder died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

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