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Definition of Cyrus the Elder
1. Noun. King of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire (circa 600-529 BC).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyrus The Elder
Literary usage of Cyrus the Elder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Decease of George by Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee, Edward Nares (1859)
"Cyaxares, Nabopolassar—Nabuchodonozor II.—Captivity of the Jews—Cyrus the elder—
Cambyses— Darius, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"CYRUS THE GREAT (also called Cyrus the Elder, to distinguish him from Cyrus the
Younger, son of Darius II., killed at Cunaxa, 401 BC): Founder of the ..."
3. Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the by Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee (1835)
"Captivity of the Jews—Cyrus the elder— Cambyses—Darius, son of Hystaspes, .Conquest of
Babylon —His War against the Scythians—His Conquest of India ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Cyrus the Elder. Like other national heroes, Cyrus, the. founder of the Persian
empire, has been surrounded with an atmosphere of myth. ..."
5. Xenophon's Anabasis: books I.-IV by Xenophon, Francis Willey Kelsey (1889)
"He is known in history as Cyrus the Great, or Cyrus the Elder. With his reign
commenced a series of great conquests whose chief cause was personal ambition. ..."
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