Who Was Alive

Chanakya

Ancient Indian teacher and strategist who authored the foundational manual on political economy

Born 375 BC · died 283 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Chanakya?

  1. Hippocrates
  2. Diogenes of Sinope
  3. Aristotle
  4. Demosthenes
  5. Chanakya
  6. Mencius
  7. Theophrastus
  8. Zhuang Zhou
  9. Alexander the Great
  10. Epicurus
  11. Zeno of Citium
  12. Ashoka
  13. Archimedes
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Chanakya was born, Aristotle was 8 or 9.

Born during Chanakya’s lifetime: Alexander the Great, Archimedes, Ashoka, Epicurus, Mencius, Theophrastus, Zhuang Zhou and Zeno of Citium.

Not quite contemporaries: Aristophanes died 9 years before Chanakya was born and Eratosthenes was born 6 years after Chanakya died.

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