Themistocles
c. 524 BCE–c. 459 BCE · Athens
Themistocles (c. 524-c. 459 BCE) was an Athenian statesman and general, not a literary author, who rose to prominence in the early democracy of Athens. He is best known for persuading Athens to build a strong navy and for his leadership at the naval Battle of Salamis (480 BCE), a decisive Greek victory over the Persian invasion. Later falling out of favor, he ended his life in exile in the Persian Empire.
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AthensAttica (Greece)
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About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Themistocles’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Aeschylus, Anaxagoras, Sophocles, Euripides, Antiphon, Socrates, Prodicus, Democritus, Thucydides, Critias
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Themistocles’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Xenophanes· 570 BCE–478 BCE
- Pythagoras· 570 BCE–495 BCE
- Epicharmus· 540 BCE–450 BCE
- Heraclitus· 540 BCE–480 BCE
- Bacchylides· 518 BCE–451 BCE
- Pindar· 518 BCE–438 BCE
- Parmenides· 515 BCE–445 BCE
- Diogenes of Apollonia· 500 BCE–428 BCE
- Empedocles· 495 BCE–435 BCE
- Zeno of Elea· 490 BCE–430 BCE
- Protagoras· 490 BCE–420 BCE
- Herodotus· 484 BCE–425 BCE
- Gorgias of Leontini· 483 BCE–376 BCE
- Leucippus· 480 BCE–420 BCE
- Hippias of Elis· 480 BCE–415 BCE
- Melissus of Samos· 470 BCE–430 BCE
- Philolaus of Croton· 470 BCE–385 BCE
- Hippocrates· 460 BCE–370 BCE
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Hindu world
Jewish world
Buddhist world
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