Social War of 91-87 BCE 90 BC–87 BC

Belligerents: Pompeii, Venosa, Samnium, Socii, Iapyges, Paeligni, Hirpini, Lucania

Key battles

• Battle of Asculum (88 BC)

Who lived through the Social War of 91-87 BCE

Well-known people alive during 90 BC–87 BC:

• Julius Caesar (99 BC–43 BC) — Roman general and dictator
• Cicero (106 BC–42 BC) — Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)
• Sima Qian (144 BC–85 BC) — 2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
• Lucretius (93 BC–54 BC) — 1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher
• Pompey (105 BC–47 BC) — Roman general and statesman (106–48 BC)
• Bartholomew the Apostle (100 BC–) — Christian apostle and martyr
• Spartacus (102 BC–70 BC) — Thracian gladiator who led a slave uprising against the Roman Republic
• Diodorus Siculus (89 BC–19 BC) — 1st-century BC Greek historian
• Sulla (137 BC–77 BC) — Roman dictator and general
• Tigranes the Great (139 BC–54 BC) — king of Armenia
• Marcus Terentius Varro (115 BC–26 BC) — Roman scholar, polymath and author (116–27 BC)
• Marcus Licinius Crassus (114 BC–52 BC) — member of the First Triumvirate
• Emperor Wu of Han (155 BC–86 BC) — seventh emperor of the Han dynasty of China (157 BC–87 BC)
• Gaius Marius (157 BC–85 BC) — Roman general, statesman and military reformer (157-86 BC)
• Mithridates VI of Pontus (133 BC–62 BC) — ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus from 120 to 63 BC
• Cato the Younger (94 BC–45 BC) — Roman statesman, general and writer (95–46 BC)
• Cornelius Nepos (99 BC–24 BC) — Roman historian and biographer (c.110 BC–c.25 BC)
• Posidonius (134 BC–50 BC) — Greek Stoic philosopher (c.135 – c.51 BC)
• Catiline (107 BC–61 BC) — Roman politician, senator and soldier (c.108–62 BC)
• Ptolemy XII Auletes (116 BC–50 BC) — 1st-century BC Egyptian pharaoh
• Ptolemy IX Lathyros (141 BC–80 BC) — king of Egypt
• Valerius Maximus (100 BC–) — early 1st century AD Roman professional rhetorician, historian and author
• Lepidus (89 BC–12 BC) — member of the Second Triumvirate of Rome
• Burebista (90 BC–43 BC) — 1st-century BC Thracian king of the Getae and Dacians
• Ptolemy X Alexander I (139 BC–87 BC) — King of Egypt

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