Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 339 BC?

36 of the people we track were surely alive in 339 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.

  1. Aristotle45–46
  2. Alexander the Great17
  3. Epicurus3–4
  4. Chanakya36–37
  5. Diogenes59–64
  6. Demosthenes45
  7. Mencius31–36
  8. Theophrastus30–35
  9. Zhuang Zhou28–33
  10. Chandragupta Maurya1–2
  11. Darius III41–42
  12. Isocrates97–98
  13. Seleucus I Nicator19–20
  14. Qu Yuan4
  15. Pytheas18–23
  16. Artaxerxes III86
  17. Roxana6–8
  18. Praxiteles54–59
  19. Apelles31
  20. Xenocrates57
  21. Olympias34–38
  22. Shang Yang51–52
  23. Antigonus I Monophthalmus43–44
  24. Lysippos49–54
  25. Lysimachus14–22
  26. Aeschines49–54
  27. Philip III of Macedon20
  28. Antipater58
  29. Aristoxenus19–24
  30. Agathocles of Syracuse22
  31. Cassander16
  32. Demetrius of Phalerum11–12
  33. Perdiccas26
  34. Ephorus59–64
  35. Hephaestion17–18
  36. Nearchus17

Where the people alive in 339 BC were born

The 36 best known of those alive in 339 BC. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (31 of 36 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list