[[File:Cyrus_II_le_Grand_et_les_Hébreux.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Depiction of Cyrus the Great by [[Jean Fouquet]], 1470.]]
'''[[Cyrus the Great]]''' omitted from, but contemporary with Vishtaspa of the Shahnameh was the greatest of the Achaemenids. He was the son of Cambyses I son of Cyrus I son of Teispes (Kai Kaos) son of Achaemenes son of Perses son of Perseus son of Danaë and Proteus son of Abas son of Lynceus son of Aegyptus son of Belus son of Poseidon son of Cronus (Horus) son of Uranus(Mitzraim).
Cyrus figures in the [[Hebrew Bible]] (Old Testament) as the patron and deliverer of the [[Jew]]s. He is mentioned 23 times by name and alluded to several times more.
