Diogenes of Sinope
c. 412 BC – 323 BC · 89 years · Corinth · Europe
The best-known Cynic: he taught living simply and according to nature, scorning wealth, fame and convention. Legend says he lived in a clay jar and asked Alexander the Great to stand out of his sunlight.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Plato — ancient Greek philosopher, 16 years older
- Aristotle — ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, 28 years younger
- Socrates — Athenian philosopher, 58 years older
- Hippocrates — ancient Greek physician, 48 years older
- Democritus — ancient Greek atomist philosopher, 48 years older
- Epicurus — ancient Greek philosopher, 71 years younger
Middle East
- Alexander the Great — king of Macedon and conqueror, 56 years younger
Africa
- Ptolemy I Soter — founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, 45 years younger
Asia
- Mencius — Chinese Confucian philosopher, 40 years younger
- Chandragupta Maurya — founder of the Maurya Empire, 72 years younger
- Zhuangzi — Chinese Taoist philosopher, 43 years younger
- Mozi — Chinese philosopher, founder of Mohism, 58 years older
- Qu Yuan — Chinese poet and minister, 72 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 331 BC Battle of Gaugamela — aged 81, Middle East
- 331 BC Founding of Alexandria — aged 81, Africa
- 323 BC Death of Alexander the Great — aged 89, Middle East