Who Was Alive

Aristophanes

Classical Athenian comic playwright

Born c. 445 BC · died 385 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Aristophanes?

  1. Pindar
  2. Anaxagoras
  3. Sophocles
  4. Empedocles
  5. Pericles
  6. Protagoras
  7. Zeno of Elea
  8. Herodotus
  9. Socrates
  10. Hippocrates
  11. Aristophanes
  12. Diogenes of Sinope
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Born during Aristophanes’s lifetime: Diogenes of Sinope.

Not quite contemporaries: Aristotle was born months after Aristophanes died, Aeschylus died 8 years before Aristophanes was born, Chanakya was born 9 years after Aristophanes died and Demosthenes was born about a year after Aristophanes died.

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