the ledger of connections
The Connections of Aeschylus
Ancient Athenian playwright Every person recorded alongside Aeschylus in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Aeschylus in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Euphorion of Eleusis
- Children
- Euphorion, Euaeon
- Siblings
- Aeschylus' sister, Cynaegirus, Ameinias of Athens
- Influenced
- Henry David Thoreau
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 525 BCE to 456 BCE.

Ancient era
Gautama Buddha
563 BCE – 483 BCE
Founder of Buddhism whose teachings on suffering and liberation endure worldwide

Ancient era
Confucius
552 BCE – 479 BCE
Chinese philosopher whose ethics shaped East Asian civilization for 2,500 years

Ancient era
Laozi
604 BCE – c. 500 BCE
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism

Ancient era
Darius I
550 BCE – 486 BCE
The fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor (522–486 BC)

Ancient era
Xerxes I
519 BCE – 465 BCE
Fifth Achaemenid emperor (486–465 BC)

Ancient era
Themistocles
524 BCE – 459 BCE
Athenian politician and general (c. 524–459 BC)

Ancient era
Pericles
494 BCE – 429 BCE
Athenian statesman, orator and general (c. 495 – 429 BC)

Ancient era
Herodotus
484 BCE – 425 BCE
Greek historian and geographer (c.484–c.425 BC)

Ancient era
Thucydides
c. 460 BCE – 395 BCE
5th-century BC Athenian historian and general

Ancient era
Socrates
470 BCE – 399 BCE
Athenian philosopher whose questioning method founded Western ethics

Ancient era
Pythagoras
c. 550 BCE – c. 490 BCE
Greek mathematician and mystic of number and harmony

Ancient era
Heraclitus
535 BCE – c. 470 BCE
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)