Who Was Alive

Confucius

5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician

Born c. 551 BC · died c. 479 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Confucius?

  1. Anaximander
  2. Cyrus the Great
  3. Anaximenes of Miletus
  4. Xenophanes
  5. Confucius
  6. Darius I
  7. Aeschylus
  8. Xerxes I
  9. Pindar
  10. Parmenides
  11. Anaxagoras
  12. Sophocles
  13. Empedocles
  14. Pericles
  15. Protagoras
  16. Zeno of Elea
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.

Born during Confucius’s lifetime: Sophocles, Aeschylus, Pericles, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Protagoras, Empedocles and Pindar.

Not quite contemporaries: Socrates was born 4 years after Confucius died, Hippocrates was born 14 years after Confucius died, Aesop died 8 years before Confucius was born and Solon died 4 years before Confucius was born.

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