Ion of Chios

Ion of Chios was a Greek writer, dramatist, lyric poet and philosopher. He was a contemporary of Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. Of his many plays and poems only a few titles and fragments have survived. He also wrote some prose works, including a Pythagorean text, the Triagmos, of which a few fragments survive.

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Who was born first?

• Ion of Chios and Oenopides were born the same year
• Ion of Chios was born 10 years after Anaxagoras
• Ion of Chios was born 20 years before Philolaus
• Ion of Chios was born 20 years before Hippocrates of Chios
• Ion of Chios was born 25 years before Theodoros of Cyrene

Timeline

1. Anaxagorascirca 500 BC – circa 428 BC
2. Ion of Chios (this page)circa 490 BC – 422 BC
3. Oenopidescirca 490 BC – circa 420 BC
4. Hippocrates of Chioscirca 470 BC – 410 BC
5. Philolauscirca 470 BC – circa 390 BC
6. Theodoros of Cyrene465–398 BC

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