Eastern Han scholar from 会稽 (today's Shaoxing) who wrote 吴越春秋, a part-history, part-legend of the states of Wu and Yue, with King 勾践's revenge on Wu and the beauty 西施.
Annals of Wu and Yue is Zhao Ye's representative work.
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history
The idiom 同病相怜 'fellow sufferers pity each other' first appears in his 吴越春秋: 伍子胥 quotes it from a folk song to explain why he trusts a fellow exile from Chu.
mistakes
The character 晔 'bright' contains 华 but is read yè, and it is rare outside personal names. Another famous bearer, 范晔, wrote 后汉书, the history that preserves Zhao Ye's biography.
