COOL ANCIENT LONGEVITY FACTS

I compiled some lifespan numbers from ancient greco-roman thinkers who I'm interested in and who more importantly weren't assassinated. (every third or fourth person in the text I looked at was whacked. cancel culture went HARD.)

Ancient Lifespan Leaderboard
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Marcus Aurelius: 58 (special achievement: Not Being Assassinated)
Diogenes Laertius: 60 (primary source on the 'main' Diogenes. sus!)
Euclid: 60-65
Aristotle: ~62
Galen, physician/medical theorist: 70
Zeno: ~72
Seneca: ~73
Xenophon: 74
Pythagoras: ~75
Archimedes: 75 (was killed, but his longevity is still thicc)
Plutarch: 79
Plato: ~82
Diogenes of Sinope: 89 (plato pwned, again)
Sophocles: ~91
Alexis, poet/comedian: 100-106 (!!!)