Who Was Alive

Callicrates

Athenian architect

Born c. 470 BC · died 420 BC
Also known as Kallikratēs, Kallikrates, Kallikratis

Who was alive at the same time as Callicrates?

  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. Socrates, c. 470 – 399 BC
  16. Aspasia, c. 470 – 400 BC
  17. Callicrates, c. 470 – 420 BC
  18. Mozi, 470–391 BC
  19. Hippocrates, c. 460 – c. 370 BC
  20. Alcibiades, c. 450 – 404 BC
  21. Aristophanes, c. 445 – 385 BC
  22. Antisthenes, 445–365 BC
  23. Aristippus, c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  24. Isocrates, 436–338 BC

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When Callicrates died, Antisthenes was 24 or 25, Isocrates was 15 or 16 and Critias was 39 or 40.

Born during Callicrates’s lifetime: Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Antisthenes, Alcibiades, Isocrates, Aristippus, Archytas and Artaxerxes III.

Not quite contemporaries: Confucius died about 4 years before Callicrates was born, Darius the Great died about 13 years before Callicrates was born, Xenophanes died about 3 years before Callicrates was born and Anacreon died about 9 years before Callicrates was born.

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Where Callicrates’s contemporaries were born

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The 40 best-known contemporaries

40 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Callicrates. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 444 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. Mozi 470–391 BC
  23. Aspasia c. 470 – 400 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. Philolaus c. 470 – c. 390 BC
  29. Agesilaus II 444–360 BC
  30. Polykleitos c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  31. Critias 460–403 BC
  32. Lysias c. 445 – 380 BC
  33. Bacchylides c. 516 – c. 451 BC
  34. Hippocrates of Chios c. 470 – 410 BC
  35. Prodicus c. 460 – c. 380 BC
  36. Dionysius I of Syracuse c. 431 – 367 BC
  37. Hippias 443–399 BC
  38. Epicharmus of Cos c. 531 – c. 440 BC
  39. Cimon 510–450 BC
  40. Marcus Furius Camillus 446–365 BC