Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 318 BC?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 318 BC. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year; a range such as 17–21 means the birth year itself is uncertain.

Born in 318 BC: Pyrrhus of Epirus.

  1. Epicurus24–25
  2. Chanakya57–58
  3. Mencius52–57
  4. Theophrastus51–56
  5. Zhuang Zhou49–54
  6. Zeno of Citium14–19
  7. Chandragupta Maurya22–23
  8. Pyrrhus of Epirusborn
  9. Seleucus I Nicator40–41
  10. Pharnavaz I8
  11. Qu Yuan25
  12. Pytheas39–44
  13. Roxana27–29
  14. Apelles52
  15. Alexander IV of Macedon5
  16. Bindusara2
  17. Xenocrates78
  18. Olympias55–59
  19. Antigonus I Monophthalmus64–65
  20. Antiochus I Soter5–7
  21. Lysippos70–75
  22. Lysimachus35–43
  23. Cleanthes13–14
  24. Philip III of Macedon41
  25. Aristoxenus40–45
  26. Agathocles of Syracuse43
  27. Cassander37
  28. Demetrius of Phalerum32–33
  29. Demetrius I Poliorcetes18–20
  30. Strato of Lampsacus15–19
  31. Herophilos17
  32. Nearchus38

Where the people alive in 318 BC were born

The 32 best known of those alive in 318 BC. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (27 of 32 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list