Who Was Alive

Pericles

Athenian statesman, orator and general

Born 494 BC · died 429 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Pericles?

  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
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Pericles was born, Darius I was 55 or 56 and Xerxes I was 24 or 25.

Born during Pericles’s lifetime: Socrates, Herodotus, Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Protagoras and Zeno of Elea.

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