Darius I
549 BC–485 BC
The fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor (522–486 BC)
monarch · statesperson · military leader
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Darius I:
- Confucius (550 BC–478 BC)
- Laozi (579 BC–500 BC)
- Pythagoras (582 BC–490 BC)
- Sun Tzu (543 BC–495 BC)
- Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC)
- Cyrus the Great (599 BC–529 BC)
- Heraclitus (534 BC–470 BC)
- Parmenides (514 BC–469 BC)