the ledger of connections
The Connections of Democritus
Greek philosopher (c. 460–c. 370 BC) Every person recorded alongside Democritus in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Democritus in the ledgers of the archive.
- Siblings
- Herodotus
- Teachers
- Leucippus
- Students
- Hippocrates, Protagoras, Metrodorus of Chios, Nessas of Chios, Anaxarchus
- Influenced by
- Leucippus
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 460 BCE to 360 BCE.
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
Demosthenes
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 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
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
Hippocrates
460 BCE – 370 BCE
Greek physician called the father of medicine
Ancient era
Philip II of Macedon
c. 385 BCE – 336 BCE
King of Macedon from 359 to 336 BC
Ancient era
Ptolemy I Soter
c. 365 BCE – c. 285 BCE
Macedonian general, ruler of Egypt