Who Was Alive

Alexander the Great

King of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia

Born 20 July 356 BC · died 10 June 323 BC, aged 32

Who was alive at the same time as Alexander the Great?

  1. Diogenes of Sinope
  2. Aristotle
  3. Demosthenes
  4. Chanakya
  5. Mencius
  6. Theophrastus
  7. Zhuang Zhou
  8. Alexander the Great
  9. Epicurus
  10. Zeno of Citium
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 Alexander the Great was born, Aristotle was 27 or 28, Chanakya was 18 or 19 and Demosthenes was 27 or 28.

When Alexander the Great died, Aristotle was 60 or 61, Epicurus was 18 or 19, Chanakya was 51 or 52 and Demosthenes was 60 or 61.

Born during Alexander the Great’s lifetime: Epicurus and Zeno of Citium.

Not quite contemporaries: Hippocrates died 12 years before Alexander the Great was born.

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