Who Was Alive

Polykleitos

Sculptor

Born c. 490 BC · died c. 420 BC
Also known as Polycleitus, Polyklet, Polyclitus the Elder

Who was alive at the same time as Polykleitos?

  1. Anacreon, c. 570 – c. 485 BC
  2. Xenophanes, 570 – c. 478 BC
  3. Confucius, c. 551 – c. 479 BC
  4. Darius the Great, 550–486 BC
  5. Aeschylus, 525–456 BC
  6. Themistocles, 524–459 BC
  7. Pāṇini, c. 520 – c. 460 BC
  8. Xerxes I, 519–465 BC
  9. Pindar, 517–437 BC
  10. Parmenides, c. 512 – c. 470 BC
  11. Anaxagoras, c. 500 – c. 428 BC
  12. Sophocles, c. 496 – c. 406 BC
  13. Empedocles, c. 494 – c. 434 BC
  14. Pericles, 494–429 BC
  15. Protagoras, c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  16. Zeno of Elea, c. 490 – c. 425 BC
  17. Polykleitos, c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  18. Herodotus, c. 484 – c. 425 BC
  19. Gorgias, c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  20. Socrates, c. 470 – 399 BC
  21. Hippocrates, c. 460 – c. 370 BC
  22. Alcibiades, c. 450 – 404 BC
  23. Aristophanes, c. 445 – 385 BC
  24. Antisthenes, 445–365 BC

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Born during Polykleitos’s lifetime: Socrates, Herodotus, Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Gorgias, Antisthenes, Alcibiades and Isocrates.

Not quite contemporaries: Diogenes was born about 14 years after Polykleitos died, Eudoxus of Cnidus was born about 7 years after Polykleitos died, Sushruta died about 7 years before Polykleitos was born and Mausolus was born about 4 years after Polykleitos died.

What happened in Polykleitos’s lifetime

Where Polykleitos’s contemporaries were born

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The 50 best-known contemporaries

50 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Polykleitos. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 455 BC.

  1. Confucius c. 551 – c. 479 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. Aeschylus 525–456 BC
  7. Aristophanes c. 445 – 385 BC
  8. Pericles 494–429 BC
  9. Darius the Great 550–486 BC
  10. Parmenides c. 512 – c. 470 BC
  11. Anaxagoras c. 500 – c. 428 BC
  12. Protagoras c. 490 – c. 420 BC
  13. Empedocles c. 494 – c. 434 BC
  14. Pindar 517–437 BC
  15. Xenophanes 570 – c. 478 BC
  16. Zeno of Elea c. 490 – c. 425 BC
  17. Xerxes I 519–465 BC
  18. Gorgias c. 483 – c. 375 BC
  19. Antisthenes 445–365 BC
  20. Anacreon c. 570 – c. 485 BC
  21. Themistocles 524–459 BC
  22. Pāṇini c. 520 – c. 460 BC
  23. Alcibiades c. 450 – 404 BC
  24. Isocrates 436–338 BC
  25. Phidias c. 500 – c. 430 BC
  26. Aristippus c. 435 – c. 360 BC
  27. Mozi 470–391 BC
  28. Simonides of Ceos 556 – c. 468 BC
  29. Aspasia c. 470 – 400 BC
  30. Archytas c. 430 – c. 345 BC
  31. Artaxerxes III 425–338 BC
  32. Artaxerxes II c. 453 – 358 BC
  33. Darius II 475–404 BC
  34. Theognis of Megara 570–485 BC
  35. Philolaus c. 470 – c. 390 BC
  36. Agesilaus II 444–360 BC
  37. Critias 460–403 BC
  38. Lysias c. 445 – 380 BC
  39. Śāriputra 568–484 BC
  40. Bacchylides c. 516 – c. 451 BC
  41. Aristides c. 540 – 467 BC
  42. Hippocrates of Chios c. 470 – 410 BC
  43. Prodicus c. 460 – c. 380 BC
  44. Dionysius I of Syracuse c. 431 – 367 BC
  45. Hippias 443–399 BC
  46. Epicharmus of Cos c. 531 – c. 440 BC
  47. Cimon 510–450 BC
  48. Callicrates c. 470 – 420 BC
  49. Atossa 550–475 BC
  50. Marcus Furius Camillus 446–365 BC