[[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 E1b1b1c E1b1b1c1 son of Cambyses I, son of Cyrus I, son of Teispes (Kai Kaos "the Nimrodian"), son of Achaemenes of the Perseids, sons of Perses, son of Perseus, son of Proteus, son of Abas, son of Lynceus, son of Aegyptus, son of Belus.
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.
