Table of 39 Famous Greek Philosophers and Statesmen who are known to have survived past the age of 70
(listed in chronological order by birth)
|
Man |
Profession |
Year of Birth
(B.C.) |
Estimated Age
at Death |
|
Pittacos |
King of Mytilenus |
c.650 |
+/- 80 |
|
Salon |
Statesman (Athens) |
c.640 |
+/- 70 |
|
Pisistrates |
Dictator (Athens) |
600 |
73 |
|
Xenophanes |
Philosopher (Pre-Socratic) |
c.570 |
+/- 92 |
|
Pythagorus |
Mathematician |
c.570 |
+/- 80 |
|
Anaximenes |
Philosopher (Naturalist) |
c.550 |
+/- 70 |
|
Parmenides |
Philosopher (Logician) |
c.544 |
+/- 95 |
|
Aristides |
Statesmen (Military General) |
c.540 |
+/- 72 |
|
Anagaxores |
Philosopher/Physicist |
c.500 |
+/- 72 |
|
Sophocles |
Playwrite (wrote Electra at the age of 82) |
c.495 |
+/- 90 |
|
Euripides |
Playwrite (Tragedy) |
c.485 |
+/- 76 |
|
Gorgias |
Philosopher (Sophist) |
c.483 |
105 or 109 |
|
Socrates |
Philosopher (whose life was shortened by being condemned to death [hemlock]) |
469 |
71 |
|
Hippocrates |
Physician ("Father" of Modern Medicine) |
460 |
90 or 100 |
|
Democrites |
Philosopher (Atomic Theory) |
c.460 |
90 or 100 |
|
Antisthenes |
Philosopher (Founder of Cynics School) |
c.445 |
+/- 80 |
|
Isocrates |
Logician (Rhetoric) |
436 |
98 |
|
Xenophones |
Writer and Disciple of Socrates |
c.430 |
75 |
|
Plato |
Philosopher (The Republic) |
429 |
81 |
|
Diogenes |
Philosopher (carried lantern) |
c.410 |
77 or 91 |
|
Xenocrates |
Philosopher (Platonist) |
c.400 |
+/- 86 |
|
Antipatros |
King of Macedonia |
c.397 |
+/- 78 |
|
Antigone 1st |
Successor to Alexander the Great |
382 |
81 |
|
Theophrastes |
Philosopher (Aristotelian) |
371 |
84 |
|
Ptolemy 1st |
Appointed Ruler of Egypt |
367 |
84 |
|
Pyrrhon |
Philosopher (Founder of Skeptics) |
365 |
90 |
|
Philemon |
Playwrite (Comedy) |
c.363 |
+/- 99 |
|
Seleucos 1st |
King of Syria |
c.358 |
+/- 78 |
|
Epicurus |
Philosopher (Founded Epicureanism) |
341 |
71 |
|
Phileter |
First King of Pergamum (City in Turkey) |
340 |
77 |
|
Zenon |
Founder of Stoicism |
c.344 |
+/- 72 |
|
Cleanthe |
Philosopher (Stoic) |
331 |
99 |
|
Timon |
Disciple of Pyrrhon |
320 |
90 |
|
Antigone 2nd |
King of Macedonia |
c.319 |
+/- 80 |
|
Arcesilas |
Philosopher (Platonist) |
c.315 |
+/- 75 |
|
Aristarchus |
Astronomer |
310 |
+/- 80 |
|
Archimedes |
Physicist/Mathematician |
c.287 |
+/- 75 |
|
Chrysippes |
Philosopher (Stoic) |
c.280 |
+/- 73 |
|
Carneades |
Philosopher (Platonist) |
c.214 |
+/- 86 |