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CYRUS i. The Name
Rüdiger Schmitt
Cyrus is a Persian name, most notably of the founder of the Achaemenid empire, Cyrus the Great and of the second son of Darius II.
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CYRUS ii. Cyrus I
A. Shapur Shahbazi
The evidence on the early Achaemenid king Cyrus I is as follows. Herodotus attested that Cyrus the Great was the son of Cambyses and grandson of Cyrus.
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CYRUS iii. Cyrus II The Great
Muhammad A. Dandamayev
Cyrus II the Great (also known to the Greeks as Cyrus the Elder; b. ca. 600 B.C.E., d. 530 B.C.E.) was the founder of the Achaemenid empire.
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CYRUS iiia. Cyrus II as Portrayed by Xenophon and Herodotus
Robert Faulkner
Xenophon, in his work The Education of Cyrus, makes Cyrus’s imperial founding the theme of a biography; for Herodotus, that founding dominates only Book 1 of nine parts apparently devoted to the Persian-Greek wars decades later.
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CYRUS iv. The Cyrus cylinder
Muhammad A. Dandamayev
The Cyrus cylinder is a fragmentary clay cylinder with an Akkadian inscription of thirty-five lines discovered in a foundation deposit by A. H. Rassam during his excavations at the site of the Marduk temple in Babylon in 1879.
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CYRUS v. The Tomb of Cyrus
Antigoni Zournatzi
The tomb of Cyrus is generally identified with a small stone monument approximately 1 km southwest of the palaces of Pasargadae, in the center of the Morḡāb plain. According to Greek sources, the tomb of Cyrus II 559-29 B.C.E.) was located in the royal park at Pasargadae.
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CYRUS vi. Cyrus the Younger
Rüdiger Schmitt
(ca. 423-01 b.c.e.), the second of the four sons of Darius II (ca. 424-05) and Parysatis and a younger brother of Arsaces/Arsicas, later Artaxerxes II (405/4-359/8).
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CYRUS RIVER (1)
Cross-reference
River in Fārs. See KOR.
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CYRUS RIVER (2)
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River in Central Asia. See KURA.
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