In addition to being a successful general, Cyrus proved to be a successful administrator and was known for his benevolent nature and generosity, Daryaee said. In his work on Cyrus, called the Cyropaedia, he described the Persian king as "the most handsome in person, most generous of heart, most devoted to learning, and most ambitious, so that he endured all sorts of labor and faced all sorts of danger for the sake of praise."Ĭyrus the Great, king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (Image credit: Public Domain) to 350 B.C.), is another important source of information on Cyrus's life, according to Britannica. According to Britannica, this story of Cyrus's infancy is likely a fabricated tale designed to show that Cyrus's reign was destined and ordained. But Cyrus survived these murder attempts, grew into manhood and overthrew the Medes. In Book I of his Histories, Herodotus depicted the early life of the Persian king, recounting in mythological terms how a series of dreams led Astyages, the king of the Medes, to attempt to kill the infant Cyrus. Herodotus is one of the main sources of information on Cyrus's life.
At the time of his death in 530 B.C., his Achaemenid Empire stretched from the Balkans in Europe to India, and, as previously discussed on Live Science, is considered to have been one of the largest empires, both geographically and in terms of population, in the ancient world. Later known as Cyrus the Great, he revolted against the Medes, conquered them, and then embarked on a campaign of conquest, adding the kingdoms of Lydia, Elam and Babylon to his burgeoning empire. But during the mid-sixth century B.C., an ambitious and capable ruler named Cyrus came to power. For several centuries, the Assyrians and later the Medes, an Indo-Iranian people who were settled in northwestern Iran, dominated the Persians, according to World History Encyclopedia. The Persians were ruled by kings who claimed descent from a semi-mythical king named Achaemenes. (Image credit: Universal History Archive via Getty Images) The Persian Empire, rise and fallīy the first millennium B.C., the Persians were well established in southwestern Iran, with their capital at Anshan, an old city of the Elamites, an ancient ethnic group from the Iranian plateau. It records the king's campaigns and tributes given to him. The Assyrian crafted Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III (858-824 B.C.), from Nimrud.
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