Pericles
c. 495 BC – 429 BC · 66 years · Athens · Europe
Led Athens at its zenith, strengthening democracy and launching the Parthenon; the 'Age of Pericles' is named after him.
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Portrait: Copy of Ktesilas · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Socrates — Athenian philosopher, 25 years younger
- Sophocles — Athenian tragic playwright, 2 years older
- Phidias — ancient Greek sculptor, 15 years younger
- Hippocrates — ancient Greek physician, 35 years younger
- Leonidas I — king of Sparta, 45 years older
- Aspasia — intellectual, partner of Pericles, 25 years younger
Middle East
- Herodotus — ancient Greek historian, 11 years younger
- Xerxes I — king of the Achaemenid Empire, 23 years older
- Heraclitus — Greek philosopher, 40 years older
Asia
- Confucius — Chinese philosopher, 56 years older
- Gautama Buddha — founder of Buddhism, 68 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 490 BC Battle of Marathon — aged 5, Europe
- c. 483 BC Death of the Buddha — aged 12, Asia
- 480 BC Battle of Thermopylae — aged 15, Europe
- 479 BC Death of Confucius — aged 16, Asia
- 447 BC–432 BC Construction of the Parthenon — aged 48, Europe
- 431 BC–404 BC Peloponnesian War — aged 64, Europe
- 430 BC–426 BC Plague of Athens — aged 65, Europe