Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 340 BC?

36 of the people we track were surely alive in 340 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. Aristotle44–45
  2. Alexander the Great16
  3. Epicurus2–3
  4. Chanakya35–36
  5. Diogenes58–63
  6. Demosthenes44
  7. Mencius30–35
  8. Theophrastus29–34
  9. Zhuang Zhou27–32
  10. Chandragupta Maurya0–1
  11. Darius III40–41
  12. Isocrates96–97
  13. Seleucus I Nicator18–19
  14. Qu Yuan3
  15. Pytheas17–22
  16. Artaxerxes III85
  17. Roxana5–7
  18. Praxiteles53–58
  19. Apelles30
  20. Xenocrates56
  21. Olympias33–37
  22. Shang Yang50–51
  23. Antigonus I Monophthalmus42–43
  24. Lysippos48–53
  25. Lysimachus13–21
  26. Aeschines48–53
  27. Philip III of Macedon19
  28. Antipater57
  29. Aristoxenus18–23
  30. Agathocles of Syracuse21
  31. Cassander15
  32. Demetrius of Phalerum10–11
  33. Perdiccas25
  34. Ephorus58–63
  35. Hephaestion16–17
  36. Nearchus16

Where the people alive in 340 BC were born

The 36 best known of those alive in 340 BC. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (31 of 36 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list