Megasthenes

350 BC–290 BC

ancient Greek ethnographer and explorer

writer · historian · diplomat

Born in Asia Minor

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Megasthenes:

• Aristotle (383 BC–321 BC)
• Alexander the Great (355 BC–322 BC)
• Euclid (333 BC–284 BC)
• Epicurus (341 BC–269 BC)
• Chanakya Kautilya (374 BC–282 BC)
• Diogenes of Sinope (399 BC–322 BC)
• Demosthenes (383 BC–321 BC)
• Mencius (371 BC–288 BC)

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