Who Was Alive

Hippocrates of Chios

Mathematician and astronomer

Born c. 470 BC · died 410 BC
Also known as Hippocrates

Who was alive at the same time as Hippocrates of Chios?

  1. Aeschylus, 525–456 BC
  2. Themistocles, 524–459 BC
  3. Pāṇini, c. 520 – c. 460 BC
  4. Xerxes I, 519–465 BC
  5. Pindar, 517–437 BC
  6. Anaxagoras, c. 500 – c. 428 BC
  7. Phidias, c. 500 – c. 430 BC
  8. Sophocles, c. 496 – c. 406 BC
  9. Empedocles, c. 494 – c. 434 BC
  10. Pericles, 494–429 BC
  11. Protagoras, c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  12. Zeno of Elea, c. 490 – c. 425 BC
  13. Herodotus, c. 484 – c. 425 BC
  14. Gorgias, c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  15. Hippocrates of Chios, c. 470 – 410 BC
  16. Socrates, c. 470 – 399 BC
  17. Aspasia, c. 470 – 400 BC
  18. Mozi, 470–391 BC
  19. Hippocrates, c. 460 – c. 370 BC
  20. Alcibiades, c. 450 – 404 BC
  21. Aristophanes, c. 445 – 385 BC
  22. Antisthenes, 445–365 BC
  23. Aristippus, c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  24. Isocrates, 436–338 BC

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When Hippocrates of Chios died, Mozi was 59 or 60, Artaxerxes III was 14 or 15, Darius II was 64 or 65, Agesilaus II was 33 or 34 and Hippias was 32 or 33.

Born during Hippocrates of Chios’s lifetime: Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Antisthenes, Alcibiades, Isocrates, Aristippus, Archytas and Artaxerxes III.

Not quite contemporaries: Confucius died about 4 years before Hippocrates of Chios was born, Diogenes was born about 7 years after Hippocrates of Chios died, Darius the Great died about 13 years before Hippocrates of Chios was born and Xenophanes died about 3 years before Hippocrates of Chios was born.

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The 42 best-known contemporaries

42 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Hippocrates of Chios. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 439 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. Xerxes I 519–465 BC
  14. Gorgias c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  15. Antisthenes 445–365 BC
  16. Themistocles 524–459 BC
  17. Pāṇini c. 520 – c. 460 BC
  18. Alcibiades c. 450 – 404 BC
  19. Isocrates 436–338 BC
  20. Phidias c. 500 – c. 430 BC
  21. Aristippus c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  22. Mozi 470–391 BC
  23. Aspasia c. 470 – 400 BC
  24. Archytas c. 430 – c. 345 BC
  25. Artaxerxes III 425–338 BC
  26. Artaxerxes II c. 453 – 358 BC
  27. Darius II 475–404 BC
  28. Epaminondas c. 418 – 362 BC
  29. Philolaus c. 470 – c. 390 BC
  30. Agesilaus II 444–360 BC
  31. Polykleitos c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  32. Critias 460–403 BC
  33. Lysias c. 445 – 380 BC
  34. Bacchylides c. 516 – c. 451 BC
  35. Aristides c. 540 – 467 BC
  36. Prodicus c. 460 – c. 380 BC
  37. Dionysius I of Syracuse c. 431 – 367 BC
  38. Hippias 443–399 BC
  39. Epicharmus of Cos c. 531 – c. 440 BC
  40. Cimon 510–450 BC
  41. Callicrates c. 470 – 420 BC
  42. Marcus Furius Camillus 446–365 BC