Who Was Alive

Diogenes of Sinope

4th-century BC Greek Cynic philosopher

Born c. 400 BC · died c. 323 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Diogenes of Sinope?

  1. Hippocrates
  2. Aristophanes
  3. Diogenes of Sinope
  4. Aristotle
  5. Demosthenes
  6. Chanakya
  7. Mencius
  8. Theophrastus
  9. Zhuang Zhou
  10. Alexander the Great
  11. Epicurus
  12. Zeno of Citium
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Born during Diogenes of Sinope’s lifetime: Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Epicurus, Chanakya, Demosthenes, Mencius, Theophrastus and Zhuang Zhou.

Not quite contemporaries: Sophocles died about a year before Diogenes of Sinope was born.

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