Socrates
c. 470 BC – 399 BC · 71 years · Athens · Europe
Philosopher who sought truth through questioning dialogue and wrote nothing; condemned by Athens, he drank hemlock.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 5th century BC
Portrait: Copy of Lysippos (?) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Plato — ancient Greek philosopher, 42 years younger
- Sophocles — Athenian tragic playwright, 27 years older
- Hippocrates — ancient Greek physician, 10 years younger
- Pericles — Athenian statesman, 25 years older
- Phidias — ancient Greek sculptor, 10 years older
- Aspasia — intellectual, partner of Pericles, born the same year
Middle East
- Herodotus — ancient Greek historian, 14 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 447 BC–432 BC Construction of the Parthenon — aged 23, Europe
- 431 BC–404 BC Peloponnesian War — aged 39, Europe
- 430 BC–426 BC Plague of Athens — aged 40, Europe