Pytheas
c. 350 BC – 285 BC · 65 years · Massalia · Europe
Navigator from Massalia who circumnavigated Britain and first described distant Thule and the midnight sun.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
Middle East
- Alexander the Great — king of Macedon and conqueror, 6 years older
Africa
- Euclid — ancient Greek mathematician, 25 years younger
- Ptolemy I Soter — founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, 17 years older
- Arsinoe II — queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, 34 years younger
Asia
- Mencius — Chinese Confucian philosopher, 22 years older
- Chandragupta Maurya — founder of the Maurya Empire, 10 years younger
- Ashoka — Maurya emperor, 46 years younger
- Zhuangzi — Chinese Taoist philosopher, 19 years older
- Qu Yuan — Chinese poet and minister, 10 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 331 BC Battle of Gaugamela — aged 19, Middle East
- 331 BC Founding of Alexandria — aged 19, Africa
- 323 BC Death of Alexander the Great — aged 27, Middle East
- c. 322 BC Founding of the Maurya Empire — aged 28, Asia
- c. 300 BC Maya script — aged 50, Americas
- c. 285 BC Library of Alexandria — aged 65, Africa