Who Was Alive

Socrates

5th-century BCE Greek philosopher

Born c. 470 BC · died 399 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Socrates?

  1. Aeschylus
  2. Xerxes I
  3. Pindar
  4. Anaxagoras
  5. Sophocles
  6. Empedocles
  7. Pericles
  8. Protagoras
  9. Zeno of Elea
  10. Herodotus
  11. Socrates
  12. Hippocrates
  13. 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.

Born during Socrates’s lifetime: Hippocrates and Aristophanes.

Not quite contemporaries: Aristotle was born 14 years after Socrates died, Confucius died 4 years before Socrates was born, Demosthenes was born 15 years after Socrates died and Darius I died 13 years before Socrates was born.

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