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Polycrates
Anonymous Unknown author Published in 1890, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Polycrates

Tyrant

Born 574 BC · died 522 BC
Also known as Polycrates of Samos

Who was alive at the same time as Polycrates?

  1. Nebuchadnezzar II, c. 642 – c. 561 BC
  2. Solon, c. 630 – c. 560 BC
  3. Cleobulus, c. 630 – c. 560 BC
  4. Aesop, c. 620 – c. 564 BC
  5. Nabonidus, c. 615 – 538 BC
  6. Anaximander, c. 610 – c. 546 BC
  7. Cyrus the Great, c. 600 – 530 BC
  8. Bias of Priene, c. 600 – c. 530 BC
  9. Chilon of Sparta, c. 600 – c. 520 BC
  10. Cambyses I, c. 600 – 559 BC
  11. Sushruta, 600–500 BC
  12. Anaximenes of Miletus, c. 585 – c. 527 BC
  13. Polycrates, 574–522 BC
  14. Anacreon, c. 570 – c. 485 BC
  15. Xenophanes, 570 – c. 478 BC
  16. Theognis of Megara, 570–485 BC
  17. Śāriputra, 568–484 BC
  18. Cambyses II, 559–522 BC
  19. Miltiades, c. 554 – 489 BC
  20. Simonides of Ceos, 556 – c. 468 BC
  21. Confucius, c. 551 – c. 479 BC
  22. Darius the Great, 550–486 BC
  23. Aeschylus, 525–456 BC
  24. Themistocles, 524–459 BC

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When Polycrates was born, Stesichorus was 55 or 56.

When Polycrates died, Aeschylus was 2 or 3, Xenophanes was 47 or 48, Simonides of Ceos was 33 or 34, Sushruta was 77 or 78 and Śāriputra was 45 or 46.

Born during Polycrates’s lifetime: Confucius, Aeschylus, Darius the Great, Xenophanes, Anacreon, Themistocles, Cambyses II and Simonides of Ceos.

Not quite contemporaries: Parmenides was born about 7 years after Polycrates died, Pindar was born about 4 years after Polycrates died, Xerxes I was born about 3 years after Polycrates died and Bacchylides was born about 3 years after Polycrates died.

Where Polycrates’s contemporaries were born

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Birthplaces as a list

Compare Polycrates

The 28 best-known contemporaries

28 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Polycrates. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 548 BC.

  1. Confucius c. 551 – c. 479 BC
  2. Aesop c. 620 – c. 564 BC
  3. Aeschylus 525–456 BC
  4. Cyrus the Great c. 600 – 530 BC
  5. Solon c. 630 – c. 560 BC
  6. Anaximander c. 610 – c. 546 BC
  7. Darius the Great 550–486 BC
  8. Xenophanes 570 – c. 478 BC
  9. Nebuchadnezzar II c. 642 – c. 561 BC
  10. Anaximenes of Miletus c. 585 – c. 527 BC
  11. Anacreon c. 570 – c. 485 BC
  12. Themistocles 524–459 BC
  13. Cambyses II 559–522 BC
  14. Simonides of Ceos 556 – c. 468 BC
  15. Theognis of Megara 570–485 BC
  16. Bias of Priene c. 600 – c. 530 BC
  17. Chilon of Sparta c. 600 – c. 520 BC
  18. Cambyses I c. 600 – 559 BC
  19. Sushruta 600–500 BC
  20. Miltiades c. 554 – 489 BC
  21. Nabonidus c. 615 – 538 BC
  22. Cleobulus c. 630 – c. 560 BC
  23. Śāriputra 568–484 BC
  24. Aristides c. 540 – 467 BC
  25. Bimbisara 558–491 BC
  26. Stesichorus 630–555 BC
  27. Pherecydes of Syros c. 580 – c. 499 BC
  28. Atossa 550–475 BC