Cyrus, born around 600 BCE, had a more legendary origin, shrouded in myth and mystery. As the son of Cambyses[a], king of Persia, and grandson of Astyages, king of Media, his birth was marked by ...

During Artaxerxes III’s campaign against the Cadusii ... only the founder, Cyrus, died in battle as a king. The Persian king, surrounded by the riches of the empire and the imperial family ...

Cyrus’ exemplary leadership forged a patchwork of ethnicities into an empire that founded Persian rule in the Middle East, Professor Lynette Mitchell explains. Read the Transcript Cyrus the Great (or ...

This week we're in very exalted intellectual company: we're with Confucius in China, Pericles in Greece, and Cyrus in Ancient Persia. It's the fifth century BC, and across the world societies are ...