the ledger of connections
The Connections of Darius III
Last king of the Achaemenid Empire (r. 336–330 BC) Every person recorded alongside Darius III in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Darius III in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Arsames, Sisygambis
- Spouses
- Stateira, Abandokht
- Children
- Ochus, Drypetis, Stateira, Ariobarzanes
- Siblings
- Stateira, Oxyathres of Persia
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 380 BCE to 330 BCE.

Ancient era
Demosthenes
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)

Ancient era
Plato
427 BCE – 347 BCE
Athenian philosopher, founder of the Academy and author of the Republic

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
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
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