Herodotus
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c. 484 BC – 425 BC · 59 years · Halicarnassus · Middle East
The 'Father of History', whose Histories recount the Greco-Persian Wars and the customs of the known world.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Socrates — Athenian philosopher, 14 years younger
- Sophocles — Athenian tragic playwright, 13 years older
- Pericles — Athenian statesman, 11 years older
- Phidias — ancient Greek sculptor, 4 years younger
- Hippocrates — ancient Greek physician, 24 years younger
- Aspasia — intellectual, partner of Pericles, 14 years younger
Middle East
- Xerxes I — king of the Achaemenid Empire, 34 years older
The world in their lifetime
- c. 483 BC Death of the Buddha — aged 1, Asia
- 480 BC Battle of Thermopylae — aged 4, Europe
- 479 BC Death of Confucius — aged 5, Asia
- 447 BC–432 BC Construction of the Parthenon — aged 37, Europe
- 431 BC–404 BC Peloponnesian War — aged 53, Europe
- 430 BC–426 BC Plague of Athens — aged 54, Europe