Who Was Alive

Parmenides

Late 6th/early 5th century BC Greek pre-Socratic philosopher

Born 515–510 BC · died c. 470 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Parmenides?

  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
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Born during Parmenides’s lifetime: Sophocles, Herodotus, Pericles, Anaxagoras, Protagoras, Empedocles and Zeno of Elea.

Not quite contemporaries: Hippocrates was born 5 years after Parmenides died, Cyrus the Great died 15 years before Parmenides was born and Anaximenes of Miletus died 8 years before Parmenides was born.

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