← Epicurus⏳ 341 BC–270 BC
🍇 Who lived at the same time as Epicurus?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Epicurus (341 BC–270 BC) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 8
🌫️Pyrrhoc. 360 BC–270 BC · 71 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Skeptic School🏛️Zenoc. 334 BC–262 BC · 64 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Stoic School🦋Zhuangzic. 369 BC–286 BC · 55 years of overlapThinker of the Warring States Period, an Important Developer of Daoist Thought🌱Menciusc. 372 BC–289 BC · 52 years of overlapThinker of the Warring States Period, Proposer of the Confucian "Innate Goodness of Human Nature"📜Xunzic. 313 BC–238 BC · 43 years of overlapThinker of the Late Warring States Period, Proposer of the Confucian "Innate Badness of Human Nature"📚Aristotle384 BC–322 BC · 19 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of Logic and of the Lyceum🕯️Diogenesc. 412 BC–323 BC · 18 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Representative Figure of the Cynic School⚖️Han Feizic. 280 BC–233 BC · 10 years of overlapThinker of the Late Warring States Period, the Great Synthesizer of Legalist Thought
Near misses (within 60 years) · 3
💡Platoc. 427 BC–347 BC · died 6 years before Epicurus was bornAncient Greek Philosopher, Proposer of the Theory of Forms, Founder of the Academy⚙️Mozic. 470 BC–391 BC · died 50 years before Epicurus was bornThinker of the Warring States Period, Founder of the Mohist School❓Socratesc. 470 BC–399 BC · died 58 years before Epicurus was bornAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the "Socratic Method"