Who Was Alive

Aeschylus

Ancient Athenian playwright

Born 525 BC · died 456 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Aeschylus?

  1. Xenophanes
  2. Confucius
  3. Darius I
  4. Aeschylus
  5. Xerxes I
  6. Pindar
  7. Parmenides
  8. Anaxagoras
  9. Sophocles
  10. Empedocles
  11. Pericles
  12. Protagoras
  13. Zeno of Elea
  14. Herodotus
  15. Socrates
  16. Hippocrates
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Aeschylus was born, Xenophanes was 44 or 45.

Born during Aeschylus’s lifetime: Socrates, Sophocles, Herodotus, Hippocrates, Pericles, Parmenides, Anaxagoras and Protagoras.

Not quite contemporaries: Cyrus the Great died 4 years before Aeschylus was born and Aristophanes was born 8 years after Aeschylus died.

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