Who Was Alive

Xerxes I

Fifth Achaemenid emperor

Born 519 BC · died August 465 BC, aged 53 or 54

Who was alive at the same time as Xerxes I?

  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
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 Xerxes I was born, Darius I was 30 or 31.

When Xerxes I died, Aeschylus was 59 or 60, Pericles was 28 or 29 and Pindar was 51 or 52.

Born during Xerxes I’s lifetime: Socrates, Sophocles, Herodotus, Pericles, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Protagoras and Empedocles.

Not quite contemporaries: Hippocrates was born 2 years after Xerxes I died, Cyrus the Great died 11 years before Xerxes I was born and Anaximenes of Miletus died 4 years before Xerxes I was born.

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