Sappho
c. 630 BC – 570 BC · 60 years · Mytilene (Lesbos) · Europe
Lyric poet of Lesbos whom Plato called the 'tenth Muse'; her love poems survive mostly in fragments.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 7th century BC
Portrait: Marie-Lan Nguyen · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Solon — Athenian lawgiver and poet, born the same year
Middle East
- Cyrus the Great — founder of the Achaemenid Empire, 30 years younger
- Nebuchadnezzar II — king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, 12 years older
- Thales of Miletus — philosopher and mathematician, 6 years younger
Asia
- Mahavira — spiritual teacher of Jainism, 31 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 612 BC Fall of Nineveh — aged 18, Middle East
- 587 BC Destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar — aged 43, Middle East