Chapter 38 Appendix Chronology of characters in this volume
586 BC - 538 BC, Jewish prophet, Torah.
580 BC - 500 BC, Pythagoras.
About 565 BC - about 485 BC, Sakyamuni.
551 BC - 479 BC, Confucius.In the late Spring and Autumn Period, Sun Wu, the author of "Sun Tzu's Art of War".
469 BC - 399 BC, Socrates.
About 468 BC - about 379 BC, Mozi.Contemporaneous with Mozi, Yang Zhu.
427 BC - 347 BC, Plato.In the early Warring States period, "Laozi" was written.
From about 390 BC to 338 BC, Shang Yang.384 BC - 322 BC, Aristotle.
About 372 BC - 289 BC, Mencius.
From about 369 BC to 286 BC, Zhuangzi.341 BC - 270 BC, Epicurus.
About 340 BC - about 278 BC, Qu Yuan.
From about 313 BC to 238 BC, Xunzi.
About 280 BC - 233 BC, Han Fei.