Empedocles
493 BC–433 BC
5th century BC Greek philosopher
writer · naturalist · physician
Born in Akragas
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Empedocles:
- Confucius (550 BC–478 BC)
- Socrates (469 BC–398 BC)
- Sophocles (495 BC–405 BC)
- Herodotus (483 BC–424 BC)
- Hippocrates (459 BC–369 BC)
- Euripides (480 BC–406 BC)
- Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC)
- Democritus (460 BC–360 BC)