Themistocles
c. 524 BC – 459 BC · 65 years · Athens (Piraeus) · Europe
Built the Athenian navy and masterminded the victory over the Persians at Salamis in 480 BC.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Pythagoras — Greek philosopher and mathematician, 46 years older
- Socrates — Athenian philosopher, 54 years younger
- Leonidas I — king of Sparta, 16 years older
- Sophocles — Athenian tragic playwright, 27 years younger
- Pericles — Athenian statesman, 29 years younger
- Phidias — ancient Greek sculptor, 44 years younger
Middle East
- Xerxes I — king of the Achaemenid Empire, 6 years younger
- Darius the Great — King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, 26 years older
- Herodotus — ancient Greek historian, 40 years younger
- Heraclitus — Greek philosopher, 11 years older
Asia
- Confucius — Chinese philosopher, 27 years older
- Gautama Buddha — founder of Buddhism, 39 years older
- Sun Tzu — Chinese military strategist, 20 years older
The world in their lifetime
- c. 509 BC Founding of the Roman Republic — aged 15, Europe
- 508 BC Cleisthenes' reforms and the birth of democracy — aged 16, Europe
- 490 BC Battle of Marathon — aged 34, Europe
- c. 483 BC Death of the Buddha — aged 41, Asia
- 480 BC Battle of Thermopylae — aged 44, Europe
- 479 BC Death of Confucius — aged 45, Asia