Confucius
550 BC–478 BC
5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician
writer · teacher · philosopher
Born in Qufu
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Confucius:
- Sophocles (495 BC–405 BC)
- Laozi (579 BC–500 BC)
- Pythagoras (582 BC–490 BC)
- Sun Tzu (543 BC–495 BC)
- Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC)
- Cyrus the Great (599 BC–529 BC)
- Heraclitus (534 BC–470 BC)
- Pericles (493 BC–428 BC)