Sun Tzu and The Art of War (In Our Time)
500 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas attributed to Sun Tzu (544-496BC, according to tradition), a legendary figure from the beginning of the Iron Age in China, around the time of Confucius. He may have been the historical figure Sun Wu, a military adviser at the court of King Helu of Wu (who reigned between about 514 and 496 BC), one of the kings in power in the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history (8th - 5th century BC).
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 500 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)