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Miltiades
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Miltiades

Athenian military leader

Born c. 554 BC · died 489 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Miltiades?

  1. Anaximander, c. 610 – c. 546 BC
  2. Cyrus the Great, c. 600 – 530 BC
  3. Bias of Priene, c. 600 – c. 530 BC
  4. Chilon of Sparta, c. 600 – c. 520 BC
  5. Anaximenes of Miletus, c. 585 – c. 527 BC
  6. Anacreon, c. 570 – c. 485 BC
  7. Xenophanes, 570 – c. 478 BC
  8. Theognis of Megara, 570–485 BC
  9. Cambyses II, 559–522 BC
  10. Miltiades, c. 554 – 489 BC
  11. Simonides of Ceos, 556 – c. 468 BC
  12. Confucius, c. 551 – c. 479 BC
  13. Darius the Great, 550–486 BC
  14. Aeschylus, 525–456 BC
  15. Themistocles, 524–459 BC
  16. Pāṇini, c. 520 – c. 460 BC
  17. Xerxes I, 519–465 BC
  18. Pindar, 517–437 BC
  19. Parmenides, c. 512 – c. 470 BC
  20. Anaxagoras, c. 500 – c. 428 BC
  21. Phidias, c. 500 – c. 430 BC
  22. Sophocles, c. 496 – c. 406 BC
  23. Empedocles, c. 494 – c. 434 BC
  24. Pericles, 494–429 BC

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Born during Miltiades’s lifetime: Sophocles, Aeschylus, Pericles, Darius the Great, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles and Pindar.

Not quite contemporaries: Herodotus was born about 3 years after Miltiades died, Aesop died about 5 years before Miltiades was born, Solon died about a year before Miltiades was born and Nebuchadnezzar II died about 2 years before Miltiades was born.

What happened in Miltiades’s lifetime

Where Miltiades’s contemporaries were born

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The 34 best-known contemporaries

34 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Miltiades. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 521 BC.

  1. Confucius c. 551 – c. 479 BC
  2. Sophocles c. 496 – c. 406 BC
  3. Aeschylus 525–456 BC
  4. Cyrus the Great c. 600 – 530 BC
  5. Pericles 494–429 BC
  6. Anaximander c. 610 – c. 546 BC
  7. Darius the Great 550–486 BC
  8. Parmenides c. 512 – c. 470 BC
  9. Anaxagoras c. 500 – c. 428 BC
  10. Empedocles c. 494 – c. 434 BC
  11. Pindar 517–437 BC
  12. Xenophanes 570 – c. 478 BC
  13. Xerxes I 519–465 BC
  14. Anaximenes of Miletus c. 585 – c. 527 BC
  15. Anacreon c. 570 – c. 485 BC
  16. Themistocles 524–459 BC
  17. Pāṇini c. 520 – c. 460 BC
  18. Phidias c. 500 – c. 430 BC
  19. Cambyses II 559–522 BC
  20. Simonides of Ceos 556 – c. 468 BC
  21. Theognis of Megara 570–485 BC
  22. Bias of Priene c. 600 – c. 530 BC
  23. Chilon of Sparta c. 600 – c. 520 BC
  24. Sushruta 600–500 BC
  25. Nabonidus c. 615 – 538 BC
  26. Śāriputra 568–484 BC
  27. Bacchylides c. 516 – c. 451 BC
  28. Aristides c. 540 – 467 BC
  29. Bimbisara 558–491 BC
  30. Polycrates 574–522 BC
  31. Epicharmus of Cos c. 531 – c. 440 BC
  32. Cimon 510–450 BC
  33. Pherecydes of Syros c. 580 – c. 499 BC
  34. Atossa 550–475 BC