Who Was Alive

Zhuang Zhou

Chinese Taoist philosopher

Born c. 369 BC · died c. 288 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Zhuang Zhou?

  1. Diogenes of Sinope
  2. Aristotle
  3. Demosthenes
  4. Chanakya
  5. Mencius
  6. Theophrastus
  7. Zhuang Zhou
  8. Alexander the Great
  9. Epicurus
  10. Zeno of Citium
  11. Ashoka
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 Zhuang Zhou’s lifetime: Alexander the Great, Ashoka, Epicurus and Zeno of Citium.

Not quite contemporaries: Aristophanes died 13 years before Zhuang Zhou was born and Eratosthenes was born 9 years after Zhuang Zhou died.

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