I'm creating a nice little list of fun contradictions. One of them is the
one below where Hippocrates is said to be older than Socrates!
Hippocrates
is dated from 460 to 370 BCE. Socrates is dated from 479 to 399 BC. So
currently Socrates is 19 years older than Hippocrates. This is
contradicted
by the reference below which claims he is younger. When Socrates' age is
corrected, he being 32 when the PPW begins in 403 BCE, he is born in 435
BCE. This would make him 25 years younger than Hippocrates and fit the
description below suggesting that Hippocrates was a contem****ary but
notably
older!
Roman rhetorician of the second century A.D., puts it this way:
Then the great Peloponnesian War began in Greece, which Thucydides has
handed down to memory...During that period Sophocles, and later Euripides,
were famous and renowned as tragic poets, Hippocrates as a physician, and
as
a philosopher, Democritus; Socrates the Athenian was younger than these,
but
was in part their contem****ary. (Noctes Atticae XVII.21, 16-18).
Euripdes, by comparison is dated from 480-406 BCE, and thus about the same
age as Socrates born in 479 BCE, otherwise Socrates born in 435 BCE is 45
years younger!
Democritus has the same dates as Hippocrates, 460-370 BCE. After
revisions
Socrates was now 19 years older, rather than 25 years younger!
Socrates would have been age 30 to 65 from 405-370 BCE, and contem****aries
with both Hippocrates and Democritus during these years when they were
55-90
years of age.
Lars Wilson
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