Sima Qian
144 BC–85 BC
2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer
astronomer · writer · poet
Born in Hejin
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Sima Qian:
- Cicero (106 BC–42 BC)
- Pompey (105 BC–47 BC)
- Bartholomew the Apostle (100 BC–)
- Spartacus (102 BC–70 BC)
- Polybius (199 BC–119 BC)
- Julius Caesar (99 BC–43 BC)
- Lucretius (93 BC–54 BC)