Cyrus the Great

(d. 530 BC)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cyrus, King of Persia, d. 529 B.C. LBT ID: Cyrus529 VIAF ID: 97754677 LOC ID: n50070141	DIED: -0530
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Son of Cambyses, he was the founder of the Persian Empire. His life is celebrated in Xenophon's Cyropædia.
REFERENCES TO Cyrus the Great: William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 10 September 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Parry, William, fl. 1825, The Last Days of Lord Byron (London: Knight and Lacey, 1825) Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ 10 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “The Last Days of Lord Byron” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 18 (August 1825) 137-55 Found 1: ¶ 65 Kennedy, James, 1793?-1827, Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Notes Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ 12 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter VII Found 1: ¶ 28 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819