Who Was Alive

Solon

Athenian legislator

Born c. 630 BC · died c. 560 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Solon?

  1. Nebuchadnezzar II
  2. Solon
  3. Aesop
  4. Anaximander
  5. Cyrus the Great
  6. Anaximenes of Miletus
  7. Xenophanes
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 Solon’s lifetime: Aesop, Cyrus the Great, Anaximander, Xenophanes and Anaximenes of Miletus.

Not quite contemporaries: Confucius was born 4 years after Solon died and Darius I was born 8 years after Solon died.

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