Who Was Alive
Cambyses I
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Cambyses I

Achaemenid sovereign

Born c. 600 BC · died 559 BC
Also known as Cambyses 01

Who was alive at the same time as Cambyses I?

  1. Nebuchadnezzar II, c. 642 – c. 561 BC
  2. Solon, c. 630 – c. 560 BC
  3. Cleobulus, c. 630 – c. 560 BC
  4. Stesichorus, 630–555 BC
  5. Aesop, c. 620 – c. 564 BC
  6. Nabonidus, c. 615 – 538 BC
  7. Anaximander, c. 610 – c. 546 BC
  8. Cyrus the Great, c. 600 – 530 BC
  9. Bias of Priene, c. 600 – c. 530 BC
  10. Chilon of Sparta, c. 600 – c. 520 BC
  11. Cambyses I, c. 600 – 559 BC
  12. Sushruta, 600–500 BC
  13. Anaximenes of Miletus, c. 585 – c. 527 BC
  14. Pherecydes of Syros, c. 580 – c. 499 BC
  15. Polycrates, 574–522 BC
  16. Anacreon, c. 570 – c. 485 BC
  17. Xenophanes, 570 – c. 478 BC
  18. Theognis of Megara, 570–485 BC
  19. Śāriputra, 568–484 BC

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When Cambyses I died, Theognis of Megara was 10 or 11, Stesichorus was 70 or 71 and Polycrates was 14 or 15.

Born during Cambyses I’s lifetime: Xenophanes, Anaximenes of Miletus, Anacreon, Theognis of Megara, Śāriputra, Polycrates and Pherecydes of Syros.

Not quite contemporaries: Confucius was born about 5 years after Cambyses I died, Darius the Great was born about 9 years after Cambyses I died, Simonides of Ceos was born about 2 years after Cambyses I died and Ancus Marcius died about 13 years before Cambyses I was born.

Where Cambyses I’s contemporaries were born

Cambyses I is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (18 of 19 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list

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