Aspasia
c. 470 BC – 400 BC · 70 years · Athens · Europe
Milesian-born partner of Pericles, famed for her intellect and rhetoric; her home was a hub of Athenian intellectual life.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Socrates — Athenian philosopher, born the same year
- Plato — ancient Greek philosopher, 42 years younger
- Sophocles — Athenian tragic playwright, 27 years older
- Hippocrates — ancient Greek physician, 10 years younger
- Pericles — Athenian statesman, 25 years older
- Phidias — ancient Greek sculptor, 10 years older
Middle East
- Herodotus — ancient Greek historian, 14 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 447 BC–432 BC Construction of the Parthenon — aged 23, Europe
- 431 BC–404 BC Peloponnesian War — aged 39, Europe
- 430 BC–426 BC Plague of Athens — aged 40, Europe