Arsinoe II
c. 316 BC – 270 BC · 46 years · Alexandria · Africa
Queen of Thrace, then wife and co-ruler of her brother Ptolemy II; she was deified in her lifetime.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 3rd century BC
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Archimedes — mathematician, physicist and engineer, 29 years younger
- Pytheas — Greek navigator and geographer, 34 years older
Africa
- Euclid — ancient Greek mathematician, 9 years older
- Ptolemy I Soter — founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, 51 years older
Asia
- Ashoka — Maurya emperor, 12 years younger
- Mencius — Chinese Confucian philosopher, 56 years older
- Chandragupta Maurya — founder of the Maurya Empire, 24 years older
- Qu Yuan — Chinese poet and minister, 24 years older
- Zhuangzi — Chinese Taoist philosopher, 53 years older
The world in their lifetime
- c. 300 BC Maya script — aged 16, Americas
- c. 285 BC Library of Alexandria — aged 31, Africa