Messenian Wars 742 BC–453 BC

Belligerents: Sparta, Sicyon, Lepreon, Messenia, Ancient Elis, Ancient Corinth, Arcadia, Argos

Who lived through the Messenian Wars

Well-known people alive during 742 BC–453 BC:

• Confucius (550 BC–478 BC) — 5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician
• Socrates (469 BC–398 BC) — 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
• Sophocles (495 BC–405 BC) — ancient Greek playwright
• Laozi (579 BC–500 BC) — 6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
• Pythagoras (582 BC–490 BC) — Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
• Herodotus (483 BC–424 BC) — Greek historian and geographer (c.484–c.425 BC)
• Aesop (619 BC–563 BC) — ancient Greek storyteller (619 BC–563 BC)
• Sun Tzu (543 BC–495 BC) — 6th century BCE Chinese general and military strategist
• Thales (624 BC–545 BC) — ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
• Euripides (480 BC–406 BC) — Classical Athenian playwright
• Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC) — ancient Athenian playwright
• Cyrus the Great (599 BC–529 BC) — founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC)
• Sappho (650 BC–569 BC) — ancient Greek poet from Lesbos (c. 630-c. 570 BC)
• Heraclitus (534 BC–470 BC) — Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
• Hesiod (775 BC–) — ancient Greek poet of the archaic period
• Pericles (493 BC–428 BC) — Athenian statesman, orator and general (c. 495 – 429 BC)
• Solon (629 BC–559 BC) — Athenian legislator
• Parmenides (514 BC–469 BC) — late 6th/early 5th century BC Greek pre-Socratic philosopher
• Anaxagoras (499 BC–427 BC) — 5th-century BC Greek philosopher
• Anaximander (609 BC–545 BC) — pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
• Darius I (549 BC–485 BC) — The fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor (522–486 BC)
• Empedocles (493 BC–433 BC) — 5th century BC Greek philosopher
• Protagoras (489 BC–419 BC) — Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (c.490–c.420 BC)
• Pindar (516 BC–436 BC) — 5th-century BC Greek lyric poet
• Xenophanes (569 BC–477 BC) — Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher (c.570–c.478 BC)

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