Who Was Alive

Darius I

The fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor

Born 550 BC · died November 486 BC, aged 63 or 64

Who was alive at the same time as Darius I?

  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.

When Darius I died, Aeschylus was 38 or 39, Pericles was 7 or 8, Pindar was 30 or 31, Xenophanes was 83 or 84 and Xerxes I was 32 or 33.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Socrates was born 13 years after Darius I died, Aesop died 12 years before Darius I was born, Solon died 8 years before Darius I was born and Nebuchadnezzar II died 9 years before Darius I was born.

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