Antar
fl. 550
Arab

Legendary Arab figure. He was reputedly the son of a Bedouin chief and a black slave, who grew up to be a fierce warrior as well as an important Arab poet. The later Romance of Antar portrayed him as an exemplar of the highest Bedouin ideals of courage, hospitality, generosity, and strict adherence to "the code of the desert."

Contemporaries
?–526Theodoric
500–547Theodora
574–622Shotoku Taishi
499–565Procopius
570–632Mohammed
482–565Justinian
521–597St. Columba
453–523St. Bridget
484–577St. Brendan
480–524Anicius Boethius
fl. 550Bodhidharma
fl. 550Bias
480–547St. Benedict of Nursia
fl. 550King Arthur
fl. c. 550–c. 650Aneirin
573–664'Amr ibn al-'As
573–634Abu-Bakr