the ledger of connections
The Connections of Zoroaster
Founder of Zoroastrianism Every person recorded alongside Zoroaster in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Zoroaster in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Porushaspa, Dohodo
- Spouses
- Hvōvita
- Children
- Porvchyista, Isat Vastar
- Influenced
- Pythagoras, Voltaire
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 628 BCE to 551 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
Nebuchadnezzar II
642 BCE – 561 BCE
King of Babylon
Ancient era
Cyrus the Great
600 BCE – 530 BCE
Founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC)
Ancient era
Thales of Miletus
c. 650 BCE – 548 BCE
Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
Ancient era
Sappho
c. 650 BCE – c. 550 BCE
Ancient Greek poet from Lesbos (c. 630-c. 570 BC)
Ancient era
Aesop
620 BCE – 564 BCE
Ancient Greek storyteller (619 BC–563 BC)
Ancient era
Nabonidus
615 BCE – 538 BCE
King of Babylon
Ancient era
Necho II
c. 700 BCE – 595 BCE
2nd Egyptian pharaoh of the 26th dynasty
Ancient era
Amasis II
c. 610 BCE – 526 BCE
Egyptian pharaoh from 570 to 526 BC
Ancient era
Cyaxares
c. 700 BCE – 584 BCE
The third and greatest king of the Medes (625–585 BC)