Who Was Alive

Hippocrates

Greek physician

Born c. 460 BC · died c. 370 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Hippocrates?

  1. Aeschylus
  2. Pindar
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Sophocles
  5. Empedocles
  6. Pericles
  7. Protagoras
  8. Zeno of Elea
  9. Herodotus
  10. Socrates
  11. Hippocrates
  12. Aristophanes
  13. Diogenes of Sinope
  14. Aristotle
  15. Demosthenes
  16. Chanakya
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.

Born during Hippocrates’s lifetime: Aristotle, Aristophanes, Chanakya, Diogenes of Sinope and Demosthenes.

Not quite contemporaries: Confucius died 14 years before Hippocrates was born, Alexander the Great was born 12 years after Hippocrates died, Parmenides died 5 years before Hippocrates was born and Xenophanes died 13 years before Hippocrates was born.

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