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Alcibiades
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Alcibiades

Athenian soldier

Born c. 450 BC · died 404 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Alcibiades?

  1. Pindar, 517–437 BC
  2. Anaxagoras, c. 500 – c. 428 BC
  3. Phidias, c. 500 – c. 430 BC
  4. Sophocles, c. 496 – c. 406 BC
  5. Empedocles, c. 494 – c. 434 BC
  6. Pericles, 494–429 BC
  7. Protagoras, c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  8. Zeno of Elea, c. 490 – c. 425 BC
  9. Herodotus, c. 484 – c. 425 BC
  10. Gorgias, c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  11. Darius II, 475–404 BC
  12. Socrates, c. 470 – 399 BC
  13. Aspasia, c. 470 – 400 BC
  14. Mozi, 470–391 BC
  15. Hippocrates, c. 460 – c. 370 BC
  16. Artaxerxes II, c. 453 – 358 BC
  17. Alcibiades, c. 450 – 404 BC
  18. Aristophanes, c. 445 – 385 BC
  19. Antisthenes, 445–365 BC
  20. Aristippus, c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  21. Isocrates, 436–338 BC
  22. Archytas, c. 430 – c. 345 BC
  23. Artaxerxes III, 425–338 BC
  24. Eudoxus of Cnidus, c. 408 – c. 355 BC

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When Alcibiades died, Mozi was 65 or 66, Artaxerxes III was 20 or 21, Agesilaus II was 39 or 40, Hippias was 38 or 39 and Marcus Furius Camillus was 41 or 42.

Born during Alcibiades’s lifetime: Aristophanes, Antisthenes, Isocrates, Aristippus, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Archytas, Artaxerxes III and Epaminondas.

Not quite contemporaries: Aeschylus died about 3 years before Alcibiades was born, Diogenes was born about a year after Alcibiades died, Parmenides died about 15 years before Alcibiades was born and Xerxes I died about 12 years before Alcibiades was born.

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Where Alcibiades’s contemporaries were born

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The 36 best-known contemporaries

36 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Alcibiades. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 426 BC.

  1. Socrates c. 470 – 399 BC
  2. Sophocles c. 496 – c. 406 BC
  3. Herodotus c. 484 – c. 425 BC
  4. Hippocrates c. 460 – c. 370 BC
  5. Aristophanes c. 445 – 385 BC
  6. Pericles 494–429 BC
  7. Anaxagoras c. 500 – c. 428 BC
  8. Protagoras c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  9. Empedocles c. 494 – c. 434 BC
  10. Pindar 517–437 BC
  11. Zeno of Elea c. 490 – c. 425 BC
  12. Gorgias c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  13. Antisthenes 445–365 BC
  14. Isocrates 436–338 BC
  15. Phidias c. 500 – c. 430 BC
  16. Aristippus c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  17. Eudoxus of Cnidus c. 408 – c. 355 BC
  18. Mozi 470–391 BC
  19. Aspasia c. 470 – 400 BC
  20. Archytas c. 430 – c. 345 BC
  21. Artaxerxes III 425–338 BC
  22. Artaxerxes II c. 453 – 358 BC
  23. Darius II 475–404 BC
  24. Epaminondas c. 418 – 362 BC
  25. Philolaus c. 470 – c. 390 BC
  26. Agesilaus II 444–360 BC
  27. Polykleitos c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  28. Critias 460–403 BC
  29. Lysias c. 445 – 380 BC
  30. Hippocrates of Chios c. 470 – 410 BC
  31. Prodicus c. 460 – c. 380 BC
  32. Dionysius I of Syracuse c. 431 – 367 BC
  33. Hippias 443–399 BC
  34. Callicrates c. 470 – 420 BC
  35. Mausolus c. 410 – 353 BC
  36. Marcus Furius Camillus 446–365 BC