Helü

550 BC–495 BC

twenty-fourth King of Chinese state of Wu from 514 to 496 BC

monarch

Born in Suzhou

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Helü:

• Confucius (550 BC–478 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)
• Parmenides (514 BC–469 BC)

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