Who Was Alive

Cyrus the Great

Founder of the Achaemenid Empire

Born c. 600 BC · died 530 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Cyrus the Great?

  1. Nebuchadnezzar II
  2. Solon
  3. Aesop
  4. Anaximander
  5. Cyrus the Great
  6. Anaximenes of Miletus
  7. Xenophanes
  8. Confucius
  9. Darius I
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 Cyrus the Great died, Xenophanes was 39 or 40.

Born during Cyrus the Great’s lifetime: Confucius, Darius I, Xenophanes and Anaximenes of Miletus.

Not quite contemporaries: Aeschylus was born 4 years after Cyrus the Great died, Parmenides was born 15 years after Cyrus the Great died, Pindar was born 12 years after Cyrus the Great died and Xerxes I was born 11 years after Cyrus the Great died.

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