Xerxes I

518 BC–464 BC

The fifth Achaemenid emperor (486–465 BC)

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Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Xerxes I:

• Confucius (550 BC–478 BC)
• Sophocles (495 BC–405 BC)
• Laozi (579 BC–500 BC)
• Pythagoras (582 BC–490 BC)
• Herodotus (483 BC–424 BC)
• Sun Tzu (543 BC–495 BC)
• Euripides (480 BC–406 BC)
• Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC)

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