Who Was Alive

Pindar

5th-century BC Greek lyric poet

Born 517 BC · died 437 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Pindar?

  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 Pindar was born, Aeschylus was 7 or 8 and Xenophanes was 52 or 53.

Born during Pindar’s lifetime: Socrates, Sophocles, Herodotus, Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Pericles, Parmenides and Anaxagoras.

Not quite contemporaries: Cyrus the Great died 12 years before Pindar was born and Anaximenes of Miletus died 5 years before Pindar was born.

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