Cyrus

Ancient Persia - Introduction to Persia and the Persian Empire

Cyrus made peace with the Medes, and cemented the alliance by creating not just Persian, but Median sub-kings (who were known as satraps) to rule the provinces.

Major Near Eastern Kings

Information on Xerxes, Darius, Cyrus, Ashurbanipal, Tiglath Pileser, Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, Sargon II and Ashurbanipal.

The Education of Cyrus the Great

Contents of Xenophon's Cyropedia on the education of Cyrus.

Cyrus

Jona Lendering explains that it is from Herodotus that we get the idea that Cyrus the Great may have conquered Bactria in the sixth century B.C.