the ledger of connections
The Connections of Aristophanes
Classical Athenian comic playwright (c. 446 – c. 386 BC) Every person recorded alongside Aristophanes in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Aristophanes in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Philippus
- Children
- Araros
- Influenced
- Plato
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 448 BCE to 386 BCE.
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
Plato
427 BCE – 347 BCE
Athenian philosopher, founder of the Academy and author of the Republic
Ancient era
Diogenes of Sinope
412 BCE – 323 BCE
4th-century BC Greek Cynic philosopher
Ancient era
Democritus
c. 460 BCE – c. 360 BCE
Greek philosopher (c. 460–c. 370 BC)
Ancient era
Hippocrates
460 BCE – 370 BCE
Greek physician called the father of medicine
Ancient era
Cincinnatus
519 BCE – c. 430 BCE
Two time Roman dictator
Ancient era
Sophocles
496 BCE – 406 BCE
Ancient Greek playwright
Ancient era
Euripides
c. 480 BCE – c. 406 BCE
Classical Athenian playwright
Ancient era
Berossus
c. 400 BCE – c. 300 BCE
3rd-century BC Babylonian writer, priest and astronomer