the ledger of connections
The Connections of Chandragupta Maurya
Founder of the Maurya Empire (350–295 BCE) Every person recorded alongside Chandragupta Maurya in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Chandragupta Maurya in the ledgers of the archive.
- Spouses
- Durdhara, Berenice
- Children
- Bindusara
- Teachers
- Chanakya, Bhadrabahu
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 340 BCE to 297 BCE.
Ancient era
Demosthenes
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)
Ancient era
Aristotle
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Greek philosopher and polymath, tutor of Alexander, father of formal logic
Ancient era
Diogenes of Sinope
412 BCE – 323 BCE
4th-century BC Greek Cynic philosopher
Ancient era
Epicurus
342 BCE – 270 BCE
Ancient Greek philosopher
Ancient era
Zeno of Citium
334 BCE – 263 BCE
Greek philosopher, founder of Stoicism
Ancient era
Euclid
b. c. 333 BCE
Ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)
Ancient era
Philip II of Macedon
c. 385 BCE – 336 BCE
King of Macedon from 359 to 336 BC
Ancient era
Alexander the Great
356 BCE – 323 BCE
Macedonian king who built an empire from Greece to India by age 30
Ancient era
Ptolemy I Soter
c. 365 BCE – c. 285 BCE
Macedonian general, ruler of Egypt
Ancient era
Mencius
372 BCE – 289 BCE
Chinese Confucian philosopher (372–289 BC)
Ancient era
Ashoka
304 BCE – 232 BCE
Mauryan emperor who renounced conquest and spread Buddhist values
Ancient era
Chanakya
375 BCE – 283 BCE
Ancient Indian teacher and strategist who authored the foundational manual on political economy