Nectanebo I (Kheperkare)

380 BCE–362 BCE · Late-Period

Nectanebo I (Egyptian Nakhtnebef; throne-name Kheperkare) founded Dynasty 30, the last native Egyptian dynasty, reigning in the Late Period around 380-362 BCE. A major builder, he raised the first pylon at Karnak and began the great temple complex of Isis on the island of Philae. In 373 BCE he successfully repelled a large Persian invasion, securing Egyptian independence for another generation.

The world in their lifetime

Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Nectanebo I (Kheperkare)’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

Graeco-Roman world

Speusippus· 408 BCE–338 BCE
Diogenes of Sinope· 412 BCE–323 BCE
Eudoxus of Cnidus· 390 BCE–337 BCE

Jewish world

The Men of the Great Assembly (collective body)· 410 BCE–310 BCE

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