Who Was Alive

Aesop

Ancient Greek storyteller

Born c. 620 BC · died c. 564 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Aesop?

  1. Nebuchadnezzar II
  2. Solon
  3. Aesop
  4. Anaximander
  5. Cyrus the Great
  6. Anaximenes of Miletus
  7. Xenophanes
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.

Born during Aesop’s lifetime: Cyrus the Great, Anaximander, Xenophanes and Anaximenes of Miletus.

Not quite contemporaries: Confucius was born 8 years after Aesop died and Darius I was born 12 years after Aesop died.

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