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Lysias
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Lysias

Athenian orator

Born c. 445 BC · died 380 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Lysias?

  1. Pindar, 517–437 BC
  2. Anaxagoras, c. 500 – c. 428 BC
  3. Phidias, c. 500 – c. 430 BC
  4. Sophocles, c. 496 – c. 406 BC
  5. Empedocles, c. 494 – c. 434 BC
  6. Pericles, 494–429 BC
  7. Protagoras, c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  8. Zeno of Elea, c. 490 – c. 425 BC
  9. Herodotus, c. 484 – c. 425 BC
  10. Gorgias, c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  11. Socrates, c. 470 – 399 BC
  12. Aspasia, c. 470 – 400 BC
  13. Mozi, 470–391 BC
  14. Hippocrates, c. 460 – c. 370 BC
  15. Alcibiades, c. 450 – 404 BC
  16. Lysias, c. 445 – 380 BC
  17. Aristophanes, c. 445 – 385 BC
  18. Antisthenes, 445–365 BC
  19. Aristippus, c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  20. Isocrates, 436–338 BC
  21. Eudoxus of Cnidus, c. 408 – c. 355 BC
  22. Diogenes, c. 400 – c. 323 BC
  23. Aristotle, 384–322 BC
  24. Demosthenes, 384–322 BC

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When Lysias died, Demosthenes was 3 or 4, Artaxerxes III was 44 or 45, Agesilaus II was 63 or 64, Xenocrates was 15 or 16 and Antipater was 16 or 17.

Born during Lysias’s lifetime: Aristotle, Diogenes, Demosthenes, Isocrates, Aristippus, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Archytas and Artaxerxes III.

Not quite contemporaries: Aeschylus died about 8 years before Lysias was born, Chanakya was born about 4 years after Lysias died, Mencius was born about 5 years after Lysias died and Theophrastus was born about 6 years after Lysias died.

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Where Lysias’s contemporaries were born

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The 47 best-known contemporaries

47 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Lysias. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 411 BC.

  1. Aristotle 384–322 BC
  2. Socrates c. 470 – 399 BC
  3. Sophocles c. 496 – c. 406 BC
  4. Herodotus c. 484 – c. 425 BC
  5. Hippocrates c. 460 – c. 370 BC
  6. Aristophanes c. 445 – 385 BC
  7. Diogenes c. 400 – c. 323 BC
  8. Pericles 494–429 BC
  9. Anaxagoras c. 500 – c. 428 BC
  10. Demosthenes 384–322 BC
  11. Protagoras c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  12. Empedocles c. 494 – c. 434 BC
  13. Pindar 517–437 BC
  14. Zeno of Elea c. 490 – c. 425 BC
  15. Gorgias c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  16. Antisthenes 445–365 BC
  17. Alcibiades c. 450 – 404 BC
  18. Isocrates 436–338 BC
  19. Phidias c. 500 – c. 430 BC
  20. Aristippus c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  21. Eudoxus of Cnidus c. 408 – c. 355 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. Praxiteles c. 395 – c. 330 BC
  31. Agesilaus II 444–360 BC
  32. Xenocrates 396–314 BC
  33. Shang Yang 390–338 BC
  34. Antigonus I Monophthalmus 382–301 BC
  35. Polykleitos c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  36. Lysippos c. 390 – c. 300 BC
  37. Critias 460–403 BC
  38. Aeschines c. 390 – c. 322 BC
  39. Antipater 397–319 BC
  40. Hippocrates of Chios c. 470 – 410 BC
  41. Prodicus c. 460 – c. 380 BC
  42. Dionysius I of Syracuse c. 431 – 367 BC
  43. Hippias 443–399 BC
  44. Callicrates c. 470 – 420 BC
  45. Mausolus c. 410 – 353 BC
  46. Ephorus c. 400 – c. 330 BC
  47. Marcus Furius Camillus 446–365 BC