Who Was Alive

Empedocles

5th century BC Greek philosopher

Born c. 494 BC · died c. 434 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Empedocles?

  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
  17. Aristophanes
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Born during Empedocles’s lifetime: Socrates, Herodotus, Hippocrates and Aristophanes.

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