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6th century BC. The 6th century BC started on the first day of 600 BC and ended on the last day of 501 BC. In Western Asia, the first half of this century was dominated by the Neo-Babylonian Empire, which had risen to power late in the previous century after successfully rebelling against Assyrian rule.
Thespis (/ ˈθɛspɪs /; Greek: Θέσπις; fl. 6th century BC) was an Ancient Greek poet. [1] He was born in the ancient city of Icarius (present-day Dionysos, Greece). [2] According to certain Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle, he was the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play (instead ...
t. e. Laozi (/ ˈlaʊdzə /, Chinese: 老子), also romanized as Lao Tzu and various other ways, was a semi-legendary ancient Chinese philosopher, author of the Tao Te Ching, the foundational text of Taoism along with the Zhuangzi. Laozi is a Chinese honorific, typically translated as "the Old Master". Modern scholarship generally regards his ...
This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. 6th-century BC people by continent (1 C) 6th-century BC people by nationality (9 C) 6th-century BC people by occupation (17 C) 6th-century BC people by religion (6 C)
Aesop (/ ˈ iː s ɒ p / EE-sop or / ˈ eɪ s ɒ p / AY-sop; Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aísōpos; formerly rendered as Æsop) is an almost certainly legendary Greek fabulist and storyteller, said to have lived c. 620–564 BCE, and credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
Sanjaya Belatthiputta (7th-6th century BCE) Śāriputra (6th century BCE) Seneca the Younger, (c. 4 BC-AD 65) Shang Yang (or Gongsun Yang), (d. 338 BC) Shvetaketu,(9th century BCE) Shen Buhai, (d. 337 BC) Shen Dao (or Shen Tzu), (c. 350-275 BC) Shvetashvatara, (c. 4th century BC) Socrates, (470 BC-399 BC) Solomon, (970-931 BC) Shukracharya (8th ...
t. e. Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from c. 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, [1] following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period. In the archaic period, Greeks settled across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea: by the end of the period, they were part of a trade network ...
The Spring and Autumn period (c. 770 – c. 481 BCE [1] [a]) was a period in Chinese history corresponding roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou (c. 771 – 256 BCE), characterized by the gradual erosion of royal power as local lords nominally subject to the Zhou exercised increasing political autonomy.