Who Was Alive

Critias

Athenian politician

Born 460 BC · died 403 BC, aged 56 or 57
Also known as Critias IV

Who was alive at the same time as Critias?

  1. Aeschylus, 525–456 BC
  2. Themistocles, 524–459 BC
  3. Pindar, 517–437 BC
  4. Anaxagoras, c. 500 – c. 428 BC
  5. Phidias, c. 500 – c. 430 BC
  6. Sophocles, c. 496 – c. 406 BC
  7. Empedocles, c. 494 – c. 434 BC
  8. Pericles, 494–429 BC
  9. Protagoras, c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  10. Zeno of Elea, c. 490 – c. 425 BC
  11. Herodotus, c. 484 – c. 425 BC
  12. Gorgias, c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  13. Socrates, c. 470 – 399 BC
  14. Aspasia, c. 470 – 400 BC
  15. Mozi, 470–391 BC
  16. Hippocrates, c. 460 – c. 370 BC
  17. Critias, 460–403 BC
  18. Alcibiades, c. 450 – 404 BC
  19. Aristophanes, c. 445 – 385 BC
  20. Antisthenes, 445–365 BC
  21. Aristippus, c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  22. Isocrates, 436–338 BC
  23. Archytas, c. 430 – c. 345 BC
  24. Eudoxus of Cnidus, c. 408 – c. 355 BC

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When Critias died, Antisthenes was 41 or 42 and Isocrates was 32 or 33.

Born during Critias’s lifetime: Aristophanes, Antisthenes, Alcibiades, Isocrates, Aristippus, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Archytas and Artaxerxes III.

Not quite contemporaries: Diogenes was born months after Critias died, Parmenides died about 7 years before Critias was born, Xerxes I died about 4 years before Critias was born and Simonides of Ceos died about 7 years before Critias was born.

What happened in Critias’s lifetime

Where Critias’s contemporaries were born

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The 41 best-known contemporaries

41 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Critias. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 432 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. Gorgias c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  14. Antisthenes 445–365 BC
  15. Themistocles 524–459 BC
  16. Alcibiades c. 450 – 404 BC
  17. Isocrates 436–338 BC
  18. Phidias c. 500 – c. 430 BC
  19. Aristippus c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  20. Eudoxus of Cnidus c. 408 – c. 355 BC
  21. Mozi 470–391 BC
  22. Aspasia c. 470 – 400 BC
  23. Archytas c. 430 – c. 345 BC
  24. Artaxerxes III 425–338 BC
  25. Artaxerxes II c. 453 – 358 BC
  26. Darius II 475–404 BC
  27. Epaminondas c. 418 – 362 BC
  28. Philolaus c. 470 – c. 390 BC
  29. Agesilaus II 444–360 BC
  30. Polykleitos c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  31. Lysias c. 445 – 380 BC
  32. Bacchylides c. 516 – c. 451 BC
  33. Hippocrates of Chios c. 470 – 410 BC
  34. Prodicus c. 460 – c. 380 BC
  35. Dionysius I of Syracuse c. 431 – 367 BC
  36. Hippias 443–399 BC
  37. Epicharmus of Cos c. 531 – c. 440 BC
  38. Cimon 510–450 BC
  39. Callicrates c. 470 – 420 BC
  40. Mausolus c. 410 – 353 BC
  41. Marcus Furius Camillus 446–365 BC