Who Was Alive

Were Isocrates and Aristotle alive at the same time?

Yes. Isocrates and Aristotle were alive at the same time for 45 or 46 years, from 384 BC to 338 BC.

Isocrates was 51 or 52 when Aristotle was born.

Aristotle was 45 or 46 when Isocrates died, aged 97 or 98.

Isocrates

Isocrates

Athenian writer

Born 436 BC · died August 338 BC, aged 97 or 98

Aristotle

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Born 384 BC · died 322 BC, aged 61 or 62

  1. Sophocles, c. 496 – c. 406 BC
  2. Herodotus, c. 484 – c. 425 BC
  3. Socrates, c. 470 – 399 BC
  4. Hippocrates, c. 460 – c. 370 BC
  5. Isocrates, 436–338 BC
  6. Diogenes, c. 400 – c. 323 BC
  7. Aristotle, 384–322 BC
  8. Chanakya, 375–283 BC
  9. Alexander the Great, 356–323 BC
  10. Epicurus, 342–270 BC

Isocrates and Aristotle in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries; dashed lines mark world events. Drag across, or use the arrow keys, to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

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Where Isocrates and Aristotle were born

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