Cyrus the Great
599 BC–529 BC
founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC)
monarch · military leader · sovereign
Born in Anshan Persia
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Cyrus the Great:
- Confucius (550 BC–478 BC)
- Laozi (579 BC–500 BC)
- Pythagoras (582 BC–490 BC)
- Aesop (619 BC–563 BC)
- Thales (624 BC–545 BC)
- Sappho (650 BC–569 BC)
- Solon (629 BC–559 BC)
- Anaximander (609 BC–545 BC)