Qin and Han · Historian and Official

Ban Gu 班固

Attested AD 80

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Ban Gu was a historian and Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 80 班史
Directly stated · Book of Wei 111, passage 7

Works and attributed material

Ban Gu's History / Hanshu 班史
Relation Author
Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 111, passage 7

References in the histories

Book of Wei, Chapter 111Volume 105a Treatise 1: Celestial Phenomena 1 · 1 passage

班史以日暈五星之屬列天文志，薄蝕彗孛之比入五行說。 Ban Gu's History put solar halos and the five planets in the Astronomical Treatise, but eclipses, comets, and similar phenomena in the discourse on the Five Phases.