Sophocles
c. 497 BC – 406 BC · 91 years · Athens · Europe
One of the three great Athenian tragedians, author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Socrates — Athenian philosopher, 27 years younger
- Plato — ancient Greek philosopher, 69 years younger
- Pericles — Athenian statesman, 2 years younger
- Hippocrates — ancient Greek physician, 37 years younger
- Phidias — ancient Greek sculptor, 17 years younger
- Leonidas I — king of Sparta, 43 years older
Middle East
- Herodotus — ancient Greek historian, 13 years younger
- Xerxes I — king of the Achaemenid Empire, 21 years older
- Darius the Great — King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, 53 years older
- Heraclitus — Greek philosopher, 38 years older
Asia
- Confucius — Chinese philosopher, 54 years older
- Gautama Buddha — founder of Buddhism, 66 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 490 BC Battle of Marathon — aged 7, Europe
- c. 483 BC Death of the Buddha — aged 14, Asia
- 480 BC Battle of Thermopylae — aged 17, Europe
- 479 BC Death of Confucius — aged 18, Asia
- 447 BC–432 BC Construction of the Parthenon — aged 50, Europe
- 431 BC–404 BC Peloponnesian War — aged 66, Europe
- 430 BC–426 BC Plague of Athens — aged 67, Europe