Who Was Alive

Mencius

Chinese Confucian philosopher

Born c. 372 BC · died c. 289 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Mencius?

  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
  11. Ashoka
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Born during Mencius’s lifetime: Alexander the Great, Ashoka, Epicurus and Zeno of Citium.

Not quite contemporaries: Aristophanes died 10 years before Mencius was born and Eratosthenes was born 10 years after Mencius died.

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