Who Was Alive

Xenophanes

Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher

Born 570 BC · died c. 478 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Xenophanes?

  1. Nebuchadnezzar II
  2. Solon
  3. Aesop
  4. Anaximander
  5. Cyrus the Great
  6. Anaximenes of Miletus
  7. Xenophanes
  8. Confucius
  9. Darius I
  10. Aeschylus
  11. Xerxes I
  12. Pindar
  13. Parmenides
  14. Anaxagoras
  15. Sophocles
  16. Empedocles
  17. Pericles
  18. Protagoras
  19. Zeno of Elea
  20. Herodotus
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Born during Xenophanes’s lifetime: Confucius, Sophocles, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Pericles, Parmenides, Anaxagoras and Darius I.

Not quite contemporaries: Socrates was born 3 years after Xenophanes died and Hippocrates was born 13 years after Xenophanes died.

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