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Epaminondas
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Epaminondas

Military leader and statesperson

Born 420–415 BC · died 362 BC
Also known as Epameinondas

Who was alive at the same time as Epaminondas?

  1. Sophocles, c. 496 – c. 406 BC
  2. Gorgias, c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  3. Socrates, c. 470 – 399 BC
  4. Aspasia, c. 470 – 400 BC
  5. Mozi, 470–391 BC
  6. Hippocrates, c. 460 – c. 370 BC
  7. Artaxerxes II, c. 453 – 358 BC
  8. Alcibiades, c. 450 – 404 BC
  9. Aristophanes, c. 445 – 385 BC
  10. Antisthenes, 445–365 BC
  11. Aristippus, c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  12. Isocrates, 436–338 BC
  13. Archytas, c. 430 – c. 345 BC
  14. Artaxerxes III, 425–338 BC
  15. Epaminondas, c. 418 – 362 BC
  16. Eudoxus of Cnidus, c. 408 – c. 355 BC
  17. Diogenes, c. 400 – c. 323 BC
  18. Aristotle, 384–322 BC
  19. Demosthenes, 384–322 BC
  20. Darius III, 380–330 BC
  21. Chanakya, 375–283 BC
  22. Mencius, c. 372 – c. 289 BC
  23. Theophrastus, c. 371 – 287 BC
  24. Zhuang Zhou, c. 369 – c. 288 BC

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When Epaminondas died, Aristotle was 21 or 22, Chanakya was 12 or 13, Darius III was 17 or 18, Isocrates was 73 or 74 and Shang Yang was 27 or 28.

Born during Epaminondas’s lifetime: Aristotle, Chanakya, Diogenes, Demosthenes, Mencius, Theophrastus, Zhuang Zhou and Darius III.

Not quite contemporaries: Alexander the Great was born about 6 years after Epaminondas died, Herodotus died about a year before Epaminondas was born, Pericles died about 8 years before Epaminondas was born and Anaxagoras died about 5 years before Epaminondas was born.

Where Epaminondas’s contemporaries were born

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The 45 best-known contemporaries

45 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Epaminondas. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 389 BC.

  1. Aristotle 384–322 BC
  2. Socrates c. 470 – 399 BC
  3. Sophocles c. 496 – c. 406 BC
  4. Hippocrates c. 460 – c. 370 BC
  5. Aristophanes c. 445 – 385 BC
  6. Chanakya 375–283 BC
  7. Diogenes c. 400 – c. 323 BC
  8. Demosthenes 384–322 BC
  9. Mencius c. 372 – c. 289 BC
  10. Theophrastus c. 371 – 287 BC
  11. Zhuang Zhou c. 369 – c. 288 BC
  12. Gorgias c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  13. Antisthenes 445–365 BC
  14. Darius III 380–330 BC
  15. Alcibiades c. 450 – 404 BC
  16. Isocrates 436–338 BC
  17. Aristippus c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  18. Eudoxus of Cnidus c. 408 – c. 355 BC
  19. Mozi 470–391 BC
  20. Aspasia c. 470 – 400 BC
  21. Archytas c. 430 – c. 345 BC
  22. Artaxerxes III 425–338 BC
  23. Artaxerxes II c. 453 – 358 BC
  24. Darius II 475–404 BC
  25. Philolaus c. 470 – c. 390 BC
  26. Praxiteles c. 395 – c. 330 BC
  27. Apelles 370–306 BC
  28. Agesilaus II 444–360 BC
  29. Xenocrates 396–314 BC
  30. Olympias c. 375 – 316 BC
  31. Shang Yang 390–338 BC
  32. Antigonus I Monophthalmus 382–301 BC
  33. Lysippos c. 390 – c. 300 BC
  34. Critias 460–403 BC
  35. Lysias c. 445 – 380 BC
  36. Aeschines c. 390 – c. 322 BC
  37. Antipater 397–319 BC
  38. Hippocrates of Chios c. 470 – 410 BC
  39. Prodicus c. 460 – c. 380 BC
  40. Dionysius I of Syracuse c. 431 – 367 BC
  41. Perdiccas 365–321 BC
  42. Hippias 443–399 BC
  43. Mausolus c. 410 – 353 BC
  44. Ephorus c. 400 – c. 330 BC
  45. Marcus Furius Camillus 446–365 BC