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Stesichorus

Poet

Born 630 BC · died 555 BC, aged 74 or 75

Who was alive at the same time as Stesichorus?

  1. Ancus Marcius, 675–616 BC
  2. Nebuchadnezzar II, c. 642 – c. 561 BC
  3. Jehoiakim, 634–598 BC
  4. Solon, c. 630 – c. 560 BC
  5. Cleobulus, c. 630 – c. 560 BC
  6. Stesichorus, 630–555 BC
  7. Aesop, c. 620 – c. 564 BC
  8. Nabonidus, c. 615 – 538 BC
  9. Anaximander, c. 610 – c. 546 BC
  10. Cyrus the Great, c. 600 – 530 BC
  11. Bias of Priene, c. 600 – c. 530 BC
  12. Chilon of Sparta, c. 600 – c. 520 BC
  13. Cambyses I, c. 600 – 559 BC
  14. Sushruta, 600–500 BC
  15. Anaximenes of Miletus, c. 585 – c. 527 BC
  16. Pherecydes of Syros, c. 580 – c. 499 BC
  17. Polycrates, 574–522 BC
  18. Anacreon, c. 570 – c. 485 BC
  19. Xenophanes, 570 – c. 478 BC
  20. Theognis of Megara, 570–485 BC
  21. Śāriputra, 568–484 BC
  22. Cambyses II, 559–522 BC
  23. Bimbisara, 558–491 BC
  24. Simonides of Ceos, 556 – c. 468 BC

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When Stesichorus was born, Jehoiakim was 3 or 4.

When Stesichorus died, Theognis of Megara was 14 or 15, Bimbisara was 2 or 3 and Polycrates was 18 or 19.

Born during Stesichorus’s lifetime: Aesop, Cyrus the Great, Anaximander, Xenophanes, Anaximenes of Miletus, Anacreon, Cambyses II and Simonides of Ceos.

Not quite contemporaries: Confucius was born about a year after Stesichorus died, Darius the Great was born about 5 years after Stesichorus died, Ashurbanipal died about a year before Stesichorus was born and Archilochus died about 12 years before Stesichorus was born.

Where Stesichorus’s contemporaries were born

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