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 pow
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Around 500 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)