Phocylides

600 BC–559 BC

ancient Greek writer

poet · elegist · epigrammatist

Born in Miletus

Contemporaries

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

• Laozi (579 BC–500 BC)
• Pythagoras (582 BC–490 BC)
• Aesop (619 BC–563 BC)
• Thales (624 BC–545 BC)
• Cyrus the Great (599 BC–529 BC)
• Sappho (650 BC–569 BC)
• Solon (629 BC–559 BC)
• Anaximander (609 BC–545 BC)

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