Polycrates

500 BC–400 BC

Athenian sophist (late 5th-early 4th century BC)

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Contemporaries

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

• Confucius (550 BC–478 BC)
• Plato (428 BC–348 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)

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