Who Was Alive

Anaxagoras

5th-century BC Greek philosopher

Born c. 500 BC · died c. 428 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Anaxagoras?

  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
  16. Hippocrates
  17. Aristophanes
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Born during Anaxagoras’s lifetime: Socrates, Herodotus, Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Pericles, Protagoras, Empedocles and Zeno of Elea.

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