the ledger of connections
The Connections of Atossa
Persian Achaemenid empress (550–475 BC) Every person recorded alongside Atossa in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Atossa in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Cyrus the Great, Cassandane
- Spouses
- Cambyses II, Bardiya, Darius I, Gaumata
- Children
- Xerxes I, Masistes, Achaemenes, Hystaspes
- Siblings
- Cambyses II, Bardiya, Roxane, Artystone
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 550 BCE to 475 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
Cyrus the Great
600 BCE – 530 BCE
Founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC)

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
Thales of Miletus
c. 650 BCE – 548 BCE
Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician

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)