Ion of Chios

489 BC–421 BC

5th-century BC Greek poet, dramatist and philosopher

writer · mathematician · historian

Born in Chios

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Ion of Chios:

• 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)
• Aristophanes (444 BC–384 BC)

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