[[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"the Nimrodian") , 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 Nimrod Uranus (Mitzraim) and Gaia daughter of Cush (Chaos).
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.
