[[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 fromthe Shahnameh, but contemporary with its Vishtaspa of the Shahnameh , was the greatest of the Achaemenids. He was the son of Cambyses I, son of Cyrus I, son of E1b1b1c1 Kay Kāvus "the Nimrodian", son of Achaemenes of the Perseids, sons of Perses, son of Perseus, son of Proteus, son of Abas, son of Lynceus "The Wolf", son of Aegyptus, son of Belus the Phoenician.
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.
