Cyrus Sentence Examples

The Persians of Cyrus were a vigorous race of husbandmen, living in a healthy climate, accustomed to hardship, brave and upright.

Cyrus on entering Babylon had even restored the gods to the cities to which they belonged.

Thence, when the opportunity came under Cyrus, some 50,000 Jews, the spiritual heirs of the best elements of the old Israel, returned to found the new community.

Klausen (Aeneas and die Penaten, 1839), the oldest collection of Sibylline oracles appears to have been made about the time of Solon and Cyrus at Gergis on Mount Ida in the Troad; it was attributed to the Hellespontine Sibyl and was preserved in the temple of Apollo at Gergis.

Now we know that Cyrus was buried at Pasargadae and if there is any truth in the statement that the body of Cambyses was brought home " to the Persians " his burying-place must be sought somewhere beside that of his father.

This they employed in constructing a strong wall around their city, a defence which stood them in good stead when Ionia was attacked by Cyrus in 546.

The Persians are not mentioned in history before the time of Cyrus; the attempt to identify them with the Parsua, a district in the Zagros chains south of Lake Urmia, often mentioned by the Assyrians, is not tenable.

When, in 553, Cyrus, king of Anshan, rebelled against Astyages, the Maraphians and Maspians joined with the Pasargadae; after his victory over Astyages all the Persian tribes acknowledged him, and he took the title of "king of Persia."

Cyrus had built his capital with his palace and tomb, in Pasargadae (q.v.).

All this must have happened about 640 B.C. After the fall of the Assyrian empire Elam was occupied by the Persian Teispes, the forefather of Cyrus, who, accordingly, like his immediate successors, is called in the inscriptions "king of Anzan."

The prophets who had marked in the past the advent of Assyrians and Chaldeans now fixed their eyes upon the advance of Cyrus, confident that the fall of Babylon would bring the restoration of their fortunes.

Cyrus was hailed as the divinely appointed saviour, the anointed one of Yahweh.

Thus, when Cambyses, the son of Cyrus, made his great expedition against Egypt, with the fleets of Phoenicia and Cyprus and with the camels of the Arabians, it is highly probable that Palestine itself was concerned.

But they succumbed before the advance of the Medo-Persian power in 606 B.C., whereas it was not till 555 that Cyrus took Babylon.

They destroyed Nineveh in alliance with the Babylonians, and half a century later Cyrus took Babylon and founded the great dynasty of the Achaemenidae.

Cyrus The Great, the founder of the Persian empire, was the son of Cambyses I.

Modern authors have often supposed that Cyrus and his ancestors were in reality Elamites; but this is contrary to all tradition, and there can be no doubt that Cyrus was a genuine Persian and a true believer in the Zoroastrian religion.

The history of Cyrus very soon became involved and quite overgrown with legends.

At the same time, the rule of Cyrus and the Persians is legitimated by his family connexion with Astyages.

Harpagus afterwards stood in high favour with Cyrus, and commanded the army which subdued the coasts of Asia Minor; his family seems to have been settled in Lycia.

After the victory Oebares kills Astyages against the will of Cyrus, and afterwards kills himself to evade the wrath of Cyrus.

With this version Ctesias and Nicolaus have connected another, in which Cyrus is the son of a Persian shepherd who lives at Pasargadae, and fights the decisive battle at this place.

The principal events of the later history of Cyrus are in the main correctly stated by Herodotus, although his account contains many legendary traditions.

Soon after the conquest of the Median empire, Cyrus was attacked by a coalition of the other powers of the East, Babylon, Egypt and Lydia, joined by Sparta, the greatest military power of Greece.

But Cyrus anticipated them; he defeated Croesus and followed him to his capital.

Here too Cyrus in a single campaign destroyed a mighty state.

In a proclamation issued after his victory Cyrus guarantees life and property to all the inhabitants and designates himself as the favourite of Marduk, the great local god (Bel, Bel-Merodak) of Babel.

His death occurred in 528 B.C., as we have a Babylonian tablet from the Adar of the tenth year of Cyrus, i.e.

February 528; for in Babylon the first year of Cyrus began in the spring of 538.

This result shows that Cyrus must have been a great warrior and statesman.

At the same time Darius fell ill and called his son to his deathbed; Cyrus handed over all his treasures to Lysander and went to Susa.

Cyrus managed very cleverly to gather a large army by beginning a quarrel with Tissaphernes, satrap of Caria, about the Ionian towns; he also pretended to prepare an expedition against the Pisidians, a mountainous tribe in the Taurus, which was never obedient to the Empire.

In the spring of 401 Cyrus united all his forces and advanced from Sardis, without announcing the object of his expedition.

The king had only been warned at the last moment by Tissaphernes and gathered an army in all haste; Cyrus advanced into Babylonia, before he met with an enemy.

Cyrus had 10,400 Greek hoplites and 2500 peltasts, and besides an Asiatic army under the command of Ariaeus, for which Xenophon gives the absurd number of ioo,000 men; the army of Artaxerxes he puts down at 900,000.

Cyrus saw that the decision.

The left wing of the Persians under Tissaphernes avoided a serious conflict with the Greeks; Cyrus in the centre threw himself upon Artaxerxes, but was slain in a desperate struggle.

The history of Cyrus and of the retreat of the Greeks is told by Xenophon in his Anabasis (where he tries to veil the actual participation of the Spartans).

The latter view is not so strange as it may at first appear, for the new book has this peculiarity, that Babylon and Cyrus are not mentioned in it at all.

Isaiah has been the discovery of two cuneiform texts relative to the fall of Babylon and the religious policy of Cyrus.

Cyrus appears in the unassailably authentic cylinder inscription "as a complete religious indifferentist, willing to go through any amount of ceremonies to soothe the prejudices of a susceptible population."

Actively interested with Cyrus Field in the laying of the first Atlantic cable, he was president of the New York, Newfoundland & London Telegraph Company, and his frequent cash advances made the success of the company possible; he was president of the North American Telegraph Company also, which controlled more than one-half of the telegraph lines of the United States.

Xenophon found a queen in power, and no opposition was offered to the march of Cyrus.

Of the reign of the last Babylonian king, Nabonidus, however, and the conquest of Babylonia by Cyrus, we now have a fair amount of information.'

This is chiefly derived from a chronological tablet containing the annals of Nabonidus, which is supplemented by an inscription of Nabonidus, in which he recounts his restoration of the temple of the Moon-god at Harran, as well as by a proclamation of Cyrus issued shortly after his formal recognition as king of Babylonia.

It was in the sixth year of Nabonidus (549 B.C.) - or perhaps in 553 - that Cyrus, " king of Anshan" in Elam, revolted against his suzerain Astyages, king of " the Manda " or Scythians, at Ecbatana.

Three years later we find that Cyrus has become king of Persia and is engaged in a campaign in the north of Mesopotamia.

Meanwhile Nabonidus has established a camp at Sippara, near the northern frontier of his kingdom, his son - probably the Belshazzar of Invasion other inscriptions - being in command of the arm by Cyrus.

In 538 B.C. Cyrus invaded Babylonia.

Nabonidus fled to Babylon, whither he was pursued by Gobryas, the governor of Kurdistan, and on the 16th of Tammuz, two days after the capture of Sippara, " the soldiers of Cyrus entered Babylon without fighting."

Cyrus did not arrive till the 3rd of Marchesvan (October), Gobryas having acted for him in his absence.

Cyrus now claimed to be the legitimate successor of the ancient Babylonian kings and the avenger of Bel-Merodach, who was wrathful at the impiety of Nabonidus in removing the images of the local gods from their ancestral shrines to his capital Babylon.

One of the first acts of Cyrus accordingly was to allow these exiles to return to their own homes, carrying with them the images of their gods and their sacred vessels.

The feeling was still strong that none had a right to rule over western Asia until he had been consecrated to the office by Bel and his priests; and from henceforth, accordingly, Cyrus assumed the imperial title of " king of Babylon."

Among his first acts were the deposition of Cyrus, the orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, in favour of John, a member of his own sect, and the summoning of a conciliabulum of Eastern bishops, which abolished the canons of the sixth general council.

Tradition tells that a few years before his death he did actually send letters to the emperor Heraclius, to the negus of Abyssinia, the king of Persia, and Cyrus, patriarch of Alexandria, the " Mukaukis " of Egypt, summoning them to accept Islam and threatening them with punishment in case of refusal.

C. von Hahn as the Aryan Expulsion and Return formula, which counts among its representatives such heroes as Perseus, Cyrus, Romulus and Remus, Siegfried, and, as Alfred Nutt has pointed out, Arthur himself.

He had allowed himself to be reconciled with Napoleon's government, and Cyrus, represented in 1804, was written in his honour, but he was temporarily disgraced in 1806 for his Epitre a Voltaire.

One of the most striking instances of the way in which mistakes of chronology may lead to the perversion of historical records is shown in the Book of Daniel in connexion with the familiar account of the capture of Babylon by Cyrus.

Within the past generation records of Cyrus have been brought to light, as well as records of the conquered Babylonian king himself, which show that the Hebrew writers of the later day had a peculiarly befogged impression of a great historical event - their misconception being shared, it may be added, by the Greek historian Herodotus.

When the annalistic tablet of Cyrus was translated, it was made to appear, to the consternation of Bible scholars, that the city of Babylon had capitulated to the Persian - or more properly to the Elamite - conqueror without a struggle.

The explanation is found, so the Assyriologist assures us, in the fact that both Hebrew and Greek historians, writing at a considerable interval after the events, and apparently lacking authentic sources, confused the peaceful occupation of Babylon by Cyrus with its siege and capture by a successor to that monarch, Darius Hystaspes.

In the beginning of his reign falls the rebellion of his brother Cyrus, who was secretly favoured by Parysatis and by Sparta.

Although Cyrus was defeated at Cunaxa, this rebellion was disastrous inasmuch as it opened to the Greeks the way into the interior of the empire, and demonstrated that no oriental force was able to withstand a band of well-trained Greek soldiers.

Xerxes) and Artaxerxes (the son and grandson of Darius respectively) breaks the account of the temple under Cyrus and Darius, and is concerned with the city walls (iv.

But from the independent testimony of Haggai and Zechariah it is doubtful whether the chronicler's account of the return under Cyrus is at all trustworthy.

These passages attest the wealth and trading importance of Saba from the days of Solomon to those of Cyrus.

The book of Chronicles begins with Adam and ends abruptly in the middle of Cyrus's decree of restoration, which reappears complete at the beginning of Ezra.

The lengths of the reigns of Nebuchadrezzar and his successors on the throne of Babylon, and also, after the conquest of Babylon, of Cyrus and the following Persian kings, are known from the " Canon of Ptolemy," referred to above, the particulars in which, for the earlier part of this period, are also confirmed by the testimony of the monuments.

The thing cannot be done unless we adopt in some form Faraday's ingenious solution, by causing the current, in some part of its course, to divide into two channels, one on each side of the magnet, in such a way that during the revolution of the magnet the current is transferred from the channel in front of the magnet to the channel behind it, so that the middle of the magnet can pass across the current without stopping it, just as Cyrus caused his army to pass dryshod over the Gyndes by diverting the river into a channel cut for it in his rear.

Before long, however, the overthrow of Astyages by Cyrus cleared Mesopotamia, and Nabonidus (Nabu-naid) was able, drawing on the resources of the whole of Syria for the purpose, to restore the famous temple of Sin at Harran, where a few years later he erected in memory of his mother, who seems to have been a priestess there, the stele published in 1907 by Pognon.

The fragmentary nature of the records does not enable us to follow the steps by which Cyrus became master of Mesopotamia, .in which he probably met with little or no resistance.

The expedition of Cyrus the Younger, with which Xenophon has made us so familar, only skirted the left bank of the Euphrates.

In spite of this, where Cyrus failed Alexander succeeded.

The old name, however, survived in popular usage; but the character of the city was changed, and till the time of Cyrus the kingdom of Sidon ceased to exist ii.

One can understand its adoption during, or soon after, the reign of Cyrus, whose policy was so favourable to the Jews, and it might easily have become as popular among them as Christmas tends to become among modern Jews.

The situation of the city was favourable for commerce, and the Cnidians acquired considerable wealth, and were able to colonize the island of Lipara, and founded the city of Corcyra Nigra in the Adriatic. They ultimately submitted to Cyrus, and from the battle of Eurymedon to the latter part of the Peloponnesian War they were subject to Athens.

Cyrus left Egypt unmolested; but the last years of Amasis were disturbed by the threatened invasion of Cambyses and by the rupture of the alliance with Polycrates of Samos.

Cyrus himself, in his proclamation to the Babylonians after the conquest of Babylon, does not mention his name.

We learn from Cyrus's proclamation that TeIspes and his successors had become kings of Anshan, i.e.

After the death of Cambyses, the younger line of the Achaemenidae came to the throne with Darius, the son of Hystaspes, who was, like Cyrus, the great-grandson of TeIspes.

Cyrus, Darius and all the later kings of Persia call themselves Achaemenides (Hakhamanishiya).

The MS. of the hymns, written by his own hand, was said to have been preserved in the church of Cyrus, in which he was buried and celebrated as a saint on the 1st of October.

Pharnabazus, weary of bearing the whole cost of the war for the Peloponnesians, agreed to a period of truce so that envoys might visit Susa, but at this stage the whole position was changed by the appointment of Cyrus the Younger as satrap of Lydia, Greater Phrygia and Cappadocia.

Cyrus promptly agreed on the special request of Lysander (q.v.) to pay slightly increased wages to the sailors, while Lysander established a system of anti-Athenian clubs and oligarchic governments in various cities.

But Cyrus and Lysander were resolved not to fight till they had a clear advantage, and Alcibiades took a small squadron to Phocaea.

Callicratidas, an honourable man of pan-Hellenic patriotism, was heavily handicapped in the fact that Cyrus declined to afford him the help which had made Lysander powerful, and had recourse to the Milesians and Chians, with whose aid he fitted out a fleet of 140 triremes (only 10 Spartan).

Cyrus, recalled to Susa by the illness of Darius, left him in entire control of his satrapy.

The kings of the East leant more than ever upon Greek mercenaries, whose superiority to barbarian levies was sensibly brought home to them by the expedition of Cyrus.

A man like the younger Cyrus invited Greek captains to his friendship for something more than their utility in war, and procured Greek hetaerae for something more than sensual pleasure.

At the beginning of his long reign of forty-four years he was threatened by Nebuchadrezzar; later he joined the league against Cyrus and saw with alarm the fall of his old enemy.

The notion that the Arab invaders were welcomed and assisted by the Copts, driven to desperation by the persecution of Cyrus, appears to be refuted by the fact that the invaders treated both Copts and Romans with the same ruthlessness; but the dissensions which prevailed in the Christian communities, leading to riots and even civil war in Alexandria and elsewhere, probably weakened resistance to the common enemy.

This was probably an invention of the Persians; Cyrus the younger employed these chariots in large numbers.

The Lydians failed to subdue Lycia, but after the fall of the Lydian empire it was conquered by Harpagus the general of Cyrus, Xanthus or Arnna, the capital, being completely destroyed.

Whether Bactria formed part of the Median empire, we do not know; but it was subjugated by Cyrus and from then formed one of the satrapies of the Persian empire.

According to Herodotus, Cyrus devoted the revenue of four great towns to meet the expenses of his hunting establishments.

The principal ruins of the town of Pasargadae at Murghab are a great terrace like that of Persepolis, and the remainders of three buildings, on which the building inscription of Cyrus, "I Cyrus the king the Achaemenid" (sc. " have built this"),, occurs five times in Persian, Susian and Babylonian.

They were built of bricks, with a foundation of stones and stone door-cases, like the palaces at Persepolis; and on these fragments of a procession of tribute-bearers and the figure of a winged demon (wrongly considered as a portrait of Cyrus) are preserved.

Outside the town are two tombs in the form of towers and the tomb of Cyrus himself, a stone house on a high substruction which rises in seven great steps, surrounded by a court with columns; at its side the remains of a guardhouse, in which the officiating Magians lived, are discernible.

With the fall of Assyria the rule of Assur also comes to an end, whereas it is significant that the cult of the gods of Babylonia - more particularly of Marduksurvives for several centuries the loss of political independence through Cyrus' capture of Babylonia in 539 B.C. The name of Assur's temple at Assur, represented by the mounds of Kaleh Sherghat, was known as E-khar-sag-gal-kur-kurra, i.e.

Cyrus meanwhile was rising to lead the Persians against Media.

The biblical history is a " canonical " history which looks back to the patriarchs, the exodus from Egypt, the law-giving and the covenant with Yahweh at Sinai, the conquest of Palestine by the Israelite tribes, the monarchy, the rival kingdoms, the fall and exile of the northern tribes, and, later, of the southern (Judah), and the reconstructions of Judah in the times of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes.

Chronicles, with the book of Ezra and Nehemiah, makes a continuity between the old Judah which fell in 586 and the return (time of Cyrus), the rebuilding of the temple (Darius), and the reorganization associated with Nehemiah and Ezra (Artaxerxes).

About his reign we know little, as the narrative of Herodotus, which makes Cyrus the grandson of Astyages by his daughter Mandane, is merely a legend; the figure of Harpagus, who as general of the Median army betrays the king to Cyrus, alone seems to contain an historical element, as Harpagus and his family afterwards obtained a high position in the Persian empire.

From the inscriptions of Nabonidus we learn that Cyrus, king of Anshan (Susiana), began war against him in 553 B.C.; in 550, when Astyages marched against Cyrus, his troops rebelled, and he was taken prisoner.

Then Cyrus occupied and plundered Ecbatana.

Too jealous of each other to combine, and too demoralized by luxury to resist, they fell an easy prey to Lydia; and when the Lydian kingdom ended with the capture of Sardis by Cyrus, 546 B.C. they passed, almost without resistance, to Persia.

Nabonidos (Nabunaid, Nabu-nahid) was immediately succeeded by Cyrus, who ruled the whole Persian empire.

Darius may possibly have acted under Cyrus as governor of Babylon, but this view is not favoured by Dan.

Cyrus did, on ascending the throne of Babylon, appoint a governor of the province, but his name was Gobryas, the son of Mardonius.

Here the sequence of the reigns in the Biblical writer and in the profane historians - in the one, Cyrus, Ahasuerus, Artaxerxes, Darius; in the other, Cyrus, Cambyses, Smerdis, Darius - led in the past (Ewald, &c.) to the identification of Ahasuerus with Cambyses (529-522 B.e.), son of Cyrus.

Jeremiah does not quote Ezekiel; and he could hardly have quoted writings of the age of Cyrus.

That Cyrus too owned allegiance to the creed, cannot be doubted by an unprejudiced mind, although in the dearth of contemporary monuments we possess no proof at first hand.

The Assyrian inscriptions demonstrate, however, that Zoroasters teaching was dominant in Media two centuries before Cyrus.

The Persian tribes were welded by Cyrus into a singh nation, and now became the foremost people in the world (se PERSIS and CYRUS).

The east of Iran was further subdued, and, after Cyrus met his end (528 B.C.) in a war against the eastern Nomads (Dahae, Massagetae), his son Cambyses conquered Egypt (525 B.C.).

To all this should be added the superiority of their leaders; Cyrus especially must have been an exceedingly able general.

The fundamental features of the imperial organization must have been due to Cyrus himself.

On his native soil Cyrus built himself a town, with a palace and a tomb, in the district of Pasargadae (now the ruins of Murghab).

Within the empire, the two great civilized states incorporated by Cyrus and Cambyses, Babylon and Egypt, occupied a position of their own.

The extent of the Persian Empire was, in essentials, defined by the great conquests of Cyrus and Cambyses.

Thus Cyrus himself gave the exiled Jews in Babylon permission to return and rebuildJerusalem.

Though, unlike Cyrus and Cambyses, Darius made no new expeditions of conquest, yet a great empire, which is not bounded The wars by another equally great, but touches on many small against tribes and independent communities, is inevitably Greece.

But when the revolt of the younger Cyrus against his brother (401 B.C.) had demonstrated the surprising ease and rapidity with which a courageous army could penetrate into the heart of the empirewhen the whole force of that empire had proved powerless, not only to prevent some 12,000 Greek troops, completely surrounded, cut off from their communications, and deprived through treachery of their leaders, from escaping to the coast, but even to make a serious attack on themthen, indeed, the imperial impotence became manifest.

In his days there arose in Persisprecisely as Cyrus had arisen under Astyages the Medea great personality.

The Buyids, and especially Adod addaula (Azud-ed-Dowleh, and similar forms), ruled Bagdad wisely and improved the city by great public works such as the great dike, still known as the Bend Amir on the Kur (Cyrus) near Persepolis.

The city seems to have been more than once under tyrannical rule in the early Ionian period; and it fell thereafter first to Croesus of Lydia, and then to Cyrus, the Persian, and when the Ionian revolt against Persia broke out in the year 500 B.C. under the lead of Miletus, the city remained submissive to Persian rule.

Eleven hundred and sixty-four years after each city was built, it was tak.en, - Babylon by Cyrus, Rome by Alaric, and Cyrus' conquest took place just when Rome began the Republic. But before Rome becomes a world empire, Macedon and Carthage intervene, gL.ardians of Rome's youth (tutor curatorque).

The fact that in no other scriptural passage is mention made of any Median ruler between the last Semitic king of Babylon and Cyrus, and the absolute silence of the authoritative ancient authors regarding such a king, make it apparent that the late author of Daniel is again in error in this particular.

It is known that Cyrus became master of Media by conquering Astyages, and that the troops of the king of Persia capturing Babylon took Nabonidus prisoner with but little difficulty.

There is not only no room in history for this Median king of the Book of Daniel, but it is also highly likely that the interpolation of "Darius the Mede" was caused by a confusion of history, due both to the destruction of the Assyrian capital Nineveh by the Medes, sixty-eight years before the capture of Babylon by Cyrus, and also to the fame of the later king, Darius Hystaspis, a view which was advanced as early in the history of biblical criticism as the days of the Benedictine monk, Marianus Scotus.

Josephus, who places the reign of Cyrus forty to fifty years too early, makes a similar error.

The Persian method, introduced by Cyrus, was to bend the knee and fall on the face at the prince's feet, striking the earth with the forehead and kissing the ground.

After the overthrow of Babylonia by the Persians, Cyrus gave the Jews permission to return to their native land (537 B.C.), and more then forty thousand are said to have availed themselves of the privilege.

When Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 he was employed in leading religious ceremonies (Chronicle of Nabonidus), and in the cylinder.

On a tablet dated from the first year of Cyrus, Cambyses is called king of Babel.

Intermingled are some stories derived from the Greek mercenaries, especially about their leader Phanes of Halicarnassus, who 1 On the much discussed tablet, which is said to date from his 1 ith year, the writer had at first written "loth year of Cyrus," and then corrected this date into "1st year of Cambyses"; see Strassmaier, Inschriften von Cambyses, No.

It was quite natural that, after Cyrus had conquered Asia, Cambyses should undertake the conquest of Egypt, the only remaining independent state of the Eastern world.

Before he set out on his expedition he killed his brother Bardiya (Smerdis), whom Cyrus had appointed governor of the eastern provinces.

Somewhat later, in 439, the walls along the Marmora and the Golden Horn were brought, by the prefect Cyrus, up to the extremities of the new landward walls, and thus invested the capital in complete armour.

It surrendered without a struggle to Cyrus, but two sieges in the reign of Darius Hystaspis, and one in the reign of Xerxes, brought about the destruction of the defences, while the monotheistic rule of Persia allowed the temples to fall into decay.

Subsequently appointed by the ephors to settle the political dissensions then rife at Byzantium and to protect the city and the neighbouring Greek colonies from Thracian attacks, he made himself tyrant of Byzantium, and, when declared an outlaw and driven thence by a Spartan force, he fled to Cyrus.

So well did he profit by the teaching he received in this quarter that, in 630 or 631, Cyrus was appointed to the vacant patriarchate of Alexandria, and in 633 succeeded in reconciling the Severians of his province on the basis of Ala 6Eav5pGKi Elip.-yEta (one divine-human energy).

He was, however, opposed by Sophronius, a monk from Palestine, who, after vainly appealing to Cyrus, actually went to Constantinople to remonstrate with Sergius himself.

A victory won about 546 B.C., when the Lydian Empire fell before Cyrus of Persia, made the Spartans masters of the Cynuria, the borderland between Laconia and Argolis, for which there had been an age-long struggle.

He reigned alone only fifteen years, Cyrus the Persian, after an indecisive battle on the Halys, marching upon Sardis, and capturing both acropolis and monarch (546 B.C.).

According to Xenophon, Cyrus had a palace and large park full of wild animals at Celaenae.

The legendary kings are but faint echoes of the kings of Biainas; the story of Semiramis and Ara is but another form of the myth of Venus and Adonis; and tradition has clothed Tigranes, the reputed friend of Cyrus, with the transient glory of the opponent of Lucullus.

It contains the outlying villages of Greenwood, Montrose and Boyntonville; and, larger than these, Wakefield, near the centre of the township. In this village is the town hall, the gift of Cyrus Wakefield (1811-1873), and the Beebe Town Library, founded in 1856 as the Public Library of South Reading, and later renamed in honour of Lucius Beebe, a generous patron.

In 1868 the present name was adopted in honour of Cyrus Wakefield, who established the rattan works here.

Like the history of the founder of the Achaemenian empire, that of Ardashir has from the beginning been overgrown with legends; like Cyrus he is the son of a shepherd, his future greatness is predicted by dreams and visions, and by the calculations of astronomers he becomes a servant at the court of King Artabanus and then flies to Persia and begins the rebellion; he fights with the great dragon, the enemy of god, &c. A Pahlavi text, which contains this legend, has been translated by Noldeke (Geschichte des Artachshir i Papakan, 1879).

The defeat of Croesus by Cyrus was followed by the conquest of all the Ionian cities.

Croesus, a king so rich that he remains a byword for wealth to this day, is overthrown by Cyrus four years later.

Quot you can better job by pianists Cyrus chestnut.

This week he's playing Billy Ray Cyrus and showcasing the dodgiest mullet of our times.

Astyages's army mutineers and the Cyrus then marches with his own army, and the Medes who have joined him, to Ecbatana.

It is strange that neither Haggai nor his contemporary Zechariah mentions or implies any return of exiles from Babylon, and the suggestion has accordingly been made that the return under Cyrus described in Ezra i.-iv.

Moreover, Persian tradition at a very remote period knew of only three architectural wonders in that region, which it attributed to the fabulous queen Humai (Khumai) - the grave of Cyrus at.

So far from drawing any lesson from the brilliant event in the reign of Cyrus, the prophets imply that Yahweh's wrath is still upon the unfortunate city and that Persia is still the oppressor.

The substitution of the Persian for the Median power, which took place with the advent of Cyrus, seems to indicate merely the pre-eminence of a particular tribe and not conquest by another race.

I, 9, 45.2) that Cyrus was three times beaten by Astyages and that the decisive battle took place in the mountains of Pasargadae, is certainly in the main historical although Herodotus (i.

With the capital, the Babylonian provinces in Syria fell to the Persians; in 538 Cyrus granted to the Jews, whom Nebuchadrezzar had transported to Babylonia, the return to Palestine and the rebuilding of Jerusalem and its temple (see JEws, § 19).

In his native district Cyrus had built a city with a palace, called after his tribe Pasargadae (now Murghab), and here he was buried (see Pasargadae).

These numbers only show that he, although an eyewitness, has no idea of large numbers; in reality the army of Cyrus may at the very utmost have consisted of 30,000, that of Artaxerxes of 40,000 men.

For archaeology see Cyrus Thomas's Catalogue of Prehistoric Works ' Died in office.

The invasion of Babylonia by Cyrus was doubtless facilitated by the existence of a disaffected party in the state, as well as by the presence of foreign exiles like the Jews, who had 1 The following is a list of the later dynasties and kings of Babylonia and Assyria so far as they are known at present.

It was only when Darius Hystaspis, the representative of the Aryan race and the Zoroastrian religion, had re-conquered the empire of Cyrus, that the old tradition was broken and the claim of Babylon to confer legitimacy on the rulers of western Asia ceased to be acknowledged (see DARIUs).

This style continued in use under the Persians, under whose rule the Phrygians passed when Cyrus defeated Croesus in 546, and lasted till the Roman period.

The weakness of Persian rule was disclosed by the expedition of Cyrus and the Ten Thousand Greeks, 402 B.C.; and in the following century Asia Minor was invaded by Alexander the Great, 334 B.C. (See Greece; Persia; Ionia.) The wars which followed the death of Alexander eventually gave Asia Minor to Seleucus, but none of the Seleucid kings was able to establish his rule over the whole peninsula.

Long, long ago, there lived in Persia a little prince whose name was Cyrus.

Although his father was a king, Cyrus was brought up like the son of a common man.

When Cyrus was twelve years old he went with his mother to Media to visit his grandfather.

There was to be music and dancing; and Cyrus was to invite as many guests as he chose.

He saw that Cyrus had a will of his own, and this pleased him very much.

When Cyrus became a man, he succeeded his father as king of Persia; he also succeeded his grandfather Astyages as king of Media.

In history he is commonly called Cyrus the Great.

In Persia, when Cyrus the Great was king, boys were taught to tell the truth.

He was the advisor and friend of two of the kings who succeeded Cyrus.

Billy Ray Cyrus' uber cute daughter Miley, has saturated the tween scene in record time.

Move over Hilary and Raven; Miley Cyrus has taken over!

The "Hannah Montana Fan Club" does offer Miley Cyrus' mailing address.

Miley Cyrus, who plays Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel, is the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus.

Disney has recently released a new line of Hannah Montana clothes in true Miley Cyrus styles.

Seen all over celebs such as Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, bold floral patterns are girly but with an edge.

Born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23, 1992 in Nashville, Tennessee, Miley Cyrus is well known as her television alter-ego Hannah Montana.

She is the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus and goddaughter of Dolly Parton.

Cyrus starred in the Disney hit sitcom Hannah Montana from 2006 through 2010, making a name for herself as both an actress and musician.

Billy Ray Cyrus is most recently known for playing the dad on Disney's hit show Hannah Montana with his real life daughter, Miley Cyrus.

This gallery from the New York Daily News includes photos and facts about houses owned by stars such as Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, and Demi Lovato.

Tween superstar Miley Cyrus is no stranger to living life in the spotlight.

Destiny Hope Cyrus, better known as Miley Cyrus and equally as well known as Hannah Montana, is the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus (best known for his serious mullet and hit song Achy Breaky Heart) and Leticia Cyrus.

If the day ever came when Miley Cyrus developed an inflated ego from being a tween superstar, brothers Christopher, Trace and Braison as well as sisters Brandi and Noah, would surely keep her grounded.

For the most part, the Cyrus family shares the spotlight with Miley and Billy Ray, opting to stay out of it themselves, but Miley and Billy Ray are not the only stars in the Cyrus clan.

Apparently, when Miley Cyrus was younger, her parents claimed that she was always smiling.

Miley Cyrus states that it is her faith and her family that keep her grounded while living the life of a superstar.

The Hannah Montana Clothing Line - The clothes in this line are inspired by Miley Cyrus and include everything from purses to pajamas.

Miley World - Revolving mostly around Miley Cyrus, but has plenty of Hannah information as well.

Recently, a class-action lawsuit was filed against the Miley Cyrus fan club, MileyWorld.

Representatives for Cyrus also commented that the website "…does not guarantee every member a concert ticket."

Love or hate Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus, there is no denying that she is currently a great role model for young tweens.

Slightly naughty pictures of 15-year-old Miley Cyrus that surfaced on the Internet over the weekend are the center of a big debate.

These most recent pictures of Cyrus are just a little bit naughty, but don't fall into the "racy" category.

The most "scandalous" of the pictures that surfaced were of Cyrus and a friend eating a piece of licorice Lady and the Tramp style, except the two girls don't end up touching lips.

The crux of the debate over the new pictures is whether they are actually Miley Cyrus and not the result of creative mixing and matching photos of other people with Miley's via Photoshop.

Miley Cyrus, with her reported $18 mllion in earnings last year at the age of 15, is a bona-fide star, but her pictures are far from the Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan ongoing scandals.

Demi Lovato has found herself among the ranks of squeaky-clean tween favorites, a group that also includes Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, and Vanessa Anne Hudgens.

As she becomes increasingly more popular, so more and more girls are looking for a Miley Cyrus dress up game.

Dress up games are online games where people get to choose their celebrity, Miley Cyrus in this case, and dress them up any way they please.

The websites are usually free and don't require that you register any personal information, making it a safe and easy way for your Miley Cyrus fan to have fun.

Since she is currently one of the hottest young starlets out there, there are plenty of websites to explore and play the Miley Cyrus dress up game that suits your resident Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus fan.

Here is a great list of websites in which you can find a Miley Cyrus dress up game.

Most Miley Cyrus or Hannah Montana dress up game websites are safe and very user friendly.

Hannah Montana is a popular television character played by the actress and singer Miley Cyrus.

There are plenty of Miley Cyrus dress up games available, but you can also find some that are based on the Hannah Montana character.

In this one, you'll be helping Miley Cyrus transform into Hannah Montana, choosing items to match a picture of the character.

One of singer Miley Cyrus' tour buses crashed in Virginia.

Authorities are continuing to investigate a fatal accident involving a tour bus transporting Miley Cyrus' lighting and production crews on their way to her upcoming show in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Disney life can be hard on a kid (take Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears, for example).

Like her fellow young actresses such as Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, and Miley Cyrus, Miranda Cosgrove has an unending number of websites devoted to her.

For instance, in 2010, he posted an inappropriate photo of underage singer/actor Miley Cyrus, which caused a major uproar.

Billy Ray Cyrus – While he's known more as the daddy to Miley Cyrus these days he's been a country music star for some time, although he later moved to singing Christian music.

Tween girls, who adore Miley Cyrus, can emulate their favorite star by wearing Hannah Montana clothes.

The series follows the double life of an average teenage schoolgirl named Miley Stewart (played by singer/actress Miley Cyrus).

The enormous popularity of the Disney-produced show catapulted Miley Cyrus' career into Hollywood's stratosphere.

Girls around the world have embraced Miley Cyrus and her TV character Hannah Montana to the point where Disney has now come out with an expanded Hannah Montana fashion line based on the character from the show.

In addition, most, but not all of the clothes, feature Miley Cyrus' image, although some only bear the Hannah Montana logo.

You don't have to attend a Miley Cyrus concert to snag cool Hannah Montana gear.

You can find a huge array of Hannah Montana inspired tops, bottoms, pajamas, and accessories from the new Miley Cyrus clothing line at affordable prices.

Girls who are fans of Miley Cyrus love Hannah Montana dresses and other items in this mega teen star's clothing line.

Disney launched the Hannah Montana clothing line in the fall of 2007, and girls embraced the fashions as easily as they embraced Miley Cyrus on the hit TV show Hannah Montana.

In 2009, the Hannah Montana clothing line expanded to include a new line carried by Wal-Mart and launched by Miley Cyrus and fashion designer Max Azria.

More for the girls, this game lets you play as Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus.

The next big line dancing hit was found in Billy Ray Cyrus' Achy Breaky Heart - which debuted in the early 1990s.

Sometimes a style of dance is launched by a song, which is exactly what happened when Billy Ray Cyrus released "Achy Breaky Heart" in 1992.

Hannah Montana is the superstar alter ego of Miley Stewart (played by Miley Cyrus, the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus), a fictional 14 year old girl and talented teen pop sensation.

Singer and daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley Cyrus typically keeps her hair look consistent.

The mullet was sported in the 1970s and 1980s by celebrities such as Billy Ray Cyrus, Chuck Norris, David Bowie, John Stamos, and Patrick Swayze.

Miley Cyrus looks red-carpet ready in her long wavy brunette hair with rich red highlights.

Awarded ten BMI Pop Awards for writing the most performed songs on the radio, Kara DioGuardi has worked with Gwen Stefani, Pink, Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Marc Anthony, and that's just name a few!

The Miley Cyrus bikini pictures, posted on the Internet, have caused controversy and tongue-clicking from parents to teens alike.

Miley Cyrus, born Destiny Hope Cyrus, is the daughter of famed country singer Billy Ray Cyrus and Leticia Finely.

Suddenly, the Miley Cyrus bikini pictures hit and so did the inevitable backlash.

So what exactly do the Miley Cyrus pictures show?

Sarcasm aside, many girls out there would love to be seen in a Miley Cyrus bikini.

Miley Cyrus always projects a happy, bright-eyed personality of someone who is eager to learn and is insatiably curious about life.

Miley Cyrus, like most teenage girls, may have exercised poor judgment, but just like many of those young ladies; it doesn't necessarily mean that she won't express personal dignity in her future endeavors.

Miley Cyrus' oscar dress of 2009 was the inspiration behind the scallop-hem sparkly contrast dress by Asos.

Videos, magazines, and books are filled with photos of Miley Cyrus playing world-famous pop singer Hannah Montana.

Okay, not just like Hannah, but certainly like all the hype that surrounds Miley Cyrus and her alter ego and it is definitely just as, if not more, popular.

Miley Cyrus is more than just Hannah Montana to youngsters and an icon to teens.

Pop star Miley Cyrus has been seen wearing a trendy pair of knee-high purple suede high heel boots.

After starring with Miley Cyrus in The Last Song, they formed a romantic relationship offscreen as well.

Though she hardly needs introduction these days, Hannah Montana is a TV character played by actress Miley Cyrus on Disney Channel's wildly successful Hannah Montana show.

On the show, Cyrus plays both the role of Miley Stewart, average teenage girl, and the role of her alter ego, Hannah Montana, mega selling teen singing sensation.

The music became such a draw in its own right that Miley Cyrus now tours doing dual shows of Hannah Montana music and her own music.

Disney's popular children's television series, Hannah Montana, stars Miley Cyrus as the student by day, pop star by night.

Her lyrics are innocent and relatable to the intended audience, and Cyrus herself performs with unbridled energy.

Disc one of the set features music from the program's second season, while disc two is Cyrus's debut album.

Miley Cyrus MP3 downloads continue to be popular, even though her days as Hannah Montana have come to an end.

There are a variety of different places on the web where you can download a variety of Miley Cyrus tunes.

Miley Cyrus, daughter of one hit wonder country crooner Billy Ray Cyrus (whose Achy Breaky Heart lives on in infamy) had a meteoric rise to fame, thanks to the Disney Channel favorite Hannah Montana show.

The tween set cannot get enough of Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana, and there are rumors that Cyrus is set to become a billion dollar cash cow for the Disney Company.

The parents of the tween set generally approve of Cyrus as a role model and example for their kids, welcoming her "good girl" persona as a breath of fresh air in a world of Paris Hiltons and Lindsey Lohans.

Cyrus' father is largely credited with carefully managing his daughter's career and keeping this image alive.

The good girl images took some knocks in 2007 and 2008, however - and the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus empire has faced its share of controversies.

Another controversy emerged over ticket sales to Cyrus' 2007 U.S. tour sold out in seconds and then tickets priced several times over the face value began popping up on eBay, forcing Ticketmaster to re-evaluate its ticketing policy.

In 2008, a photo shoot Cyrus did with Vanity Fair magazine kicked up new controversy.

In one of the shots, Cyrus is wearing only a sheet wrapped around herself, leaving many questioning the age appropriateness of the shot for a 15-year-old girl.

Disney and Cyrus herself blamed famed photographer Annie Liebovitz, but Vanity Fair released information about the session suggesting that Cyrus' father and Cyrus viewed the photo and approved it.

She played a guest starring role on an episode of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and made several appearances on the Miley Cyrus hit Hannah Montana.

Unlike some of her contemporaries, like Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez pics seldom make their way onto the Hollywood gossip blogs and celebrity magazines.

In an world where the reigning pop royalty includes such young performers as Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus, few performers stand out like Eric Clapton.

For those not in the loop of the feverishly popular show, Hannah Montana is a television series on the Disney Channel that features now-famous pop star Miley Cyrus.

Performed by Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana, the track runs in the series' opening title sequence and was written by Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil.

Hannah Montana Best of Both Worlds lyrics is a popular search term due to the rising popularity of both the Hannah Montana series and Miley Cyrus herself.

With the show ending in 2010, the sky is the limit for how far Cyrus' talent will take her.

Nick Jonas is rumored to have dated Miley Cyrus of Hannah Montana fame from June 2006 through December 2007.

Then, in 2009, Nick supposedly gave Cyrus a promise ring.

Their home in California is near the homes of other Disney stars Miley Cyrus and Ashley Tisdale.

He went on tour with Miley Cyrus for the Best of Both Worlds tour.

The Best of Both World lyrics are more than just a song for Miley Cyrus.

The song encapsulates the basic plot of the show and has since become one of Cyrus' signature tunes.

Best of Both Worlds was released as a single by Disney on March 28, 2006, as Cyrus' introductory single.

Gerrard and Neville would go on to write several more songs for Cyrus.

To date, it is Cyrus' biggest selling UK single.

The TV series follows the life of Miley Stewart, played by Cyrus.

Cyrus usually closes her live shows with a Best of Both Worlds performance, dressed in full Hannah Montana regalia.

With eLyrics, in addition to purchasing a ringtone, translating the lyrics into another language and listening to the song, you can also use the site comment section and message board to interact with your fellow Miley Cyrus fans.

Stay tuned to all the latest Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus news on her official website.

On King of the Crown, the action happens at Gowns and Crowns, the beauty pageant coaching business owned and operated by central figure of the show, Cyrus Frakes (or "Cy").

Finding Miley Cyrus Twitter pics is not difficult - the pop star is enamored with twitter and loves posting all the time.

Of course, many people enjoy going to Miley Cyrus' concerts and other events, and they post many, many pictures of her to their own Twitter accounts.

Your best bet to find Miley Cyrus pics is on one of the many celebrity photo sites, such as StarPulse.

Away in the East Cyrus had been succeeded in 529 B.C. by Cambyses, who had annexed Egypt and on whose death in 522 a Magian impostor, Gaumata, had seized the throne.

Scarcely 40 years after the destruction of Jerusalem, a new power appeared in the east in the person of Cyrus the Great.

Cyrus was so tall and strong and handsome that his grandfather was very proud of him.