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Aspasia
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Aspasia

Rhetorician

Born c. 470 BC · died 400 BC
Also known as Aspasia of Miletus

Who was alive at the same time as Aspasia?

  1. Aeschylus, 525–456 BC
  2. Themistocles, 524–459 BC
  3. Pāṇini, c. 520 – c. 460 BC
  4. Xerxes I, 519–465 BC
  5. Pindar, 517–437 BC
  6. Anaxagoras, c. 500 – c. 428 BC
  7. Phidias, c. 500 – c. 430 BC
  8. Sophocles, c. 496 – c. 406 BC
  9. Empedocles, c. 494 – c. 434 BC
  10. Pericles, 494–429 BC
  11. Protagoras, c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  12. Zeno of Elea, c. 490 – c. 425 BC
  13. Herodotus, c. 484 – c. 425 BC
  14. Gorgias, c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  15. Aspasia, c. 470 – 400 BC
  16. Socrates, c. 470 – 399 BC
  17. Mozi, 470–391 BC
  18. Hippocrates, c. 460 – c. 370 BC
  19. Alcibiades, c. 450 – 404 BC
  20. Aristophanes, c. 445 – 385 BC
  21. Antisthenes, 445–365 BC
  22. Aristippus, c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  23. Isocrates, 436–338 BC
  24. Eudoxus of Cnidus, c. 408 – c. 355 BC

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When Aspasia died, Mozi was 69 or 70, Artaxerxes III was 24 or 25, Agesilaus II was 43 or 44, Hippias was 42 or 43 and Marcus Furius Camillus was 45 or 46.

Born during Aspasia’s lifetime: Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Antisthenes, Alcibiades, Isocrates, Aristippus, Eudoxus of Cnidus and Archytas.

Not quite contemporaries: Aristotle was born about 15 years after Aspasia died, Confucius died about 4 years before Aspasia was born, Darius the Great died about 13 years before Aspasia was born and Xenophanes died about 3 years before Aspasia was born.

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Where Aspasia’s contemporaries were born

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The 44 best-known contemporaries

44 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Aspasia. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 434 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. Aeschylus 525–456 BC
  6. Aristophanes c. 445 – 385 BC
  7. Pericles 494–429 BC
  8. Anaxagoras c. 500 – c. 428 BC
  9. Protagoras c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  10. Empedocles c. 494 – c. 434 BC
  11. Pindar 517–437 BC
  12. Zeno of Elea c. 490 – c. 425 BC
  13. Xerxes I 519–465 BC
  14. Gorgias c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  15. Antisthenes 445–365 BC
  16. Themistocles 524–459 BC
  17. Pāṇini c. 520 – c. 460 BC
  18. Alcibiades c. 450 – 404 BC
  19. Isocrates 436–338 BC
  20. Phidias c. 500 – c. 430 BC
  21. Aristippus c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  22. Eudoxus of Cnidus c. 408 – c. 355 BC
  23. Mozi 470–391 BC
  24. Archytas c. 430 – c. 345 BC
  25. Artaxerxes III 425–338 BC
  26. Artaxerxes II c. 453 – 358 BC
  27. Darius II 475–404 BC
  28. Epaminondas c. 418 – 362 BC
  29. Philolaus c. 470 – c. 390 BC
  30. Agesilaus II 444–360 BC
  31. Polykleitos c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  32. Critias 460–403 BC
  33. Lysias c. 445 – 380 BC
  34. Bacchylides c. 516 – c. 451 BC
  35. Aristides c. 540 – 467 BC
  36. Hippocrates of Chios c. 470 – 410 BC
  37. Prodicus c. 460 – c. 380 BC
  38. Dionysius I of Syracuse c. 431 – 367 BC
  39. Hippias 443–399 BC
  40. Epicharmus of Cos c. 531 – c. 440 BC
  41. Cimon 510–450 BC
  42. Callicrates c. 470 – 420 BC
  43. Mausolus c. 410 – 353 BC
  44. Marcus Furius Camillus 446–365 BC