* 576 BC — Birth of Cyrus the Great, later King of Anshan, and architect of the Persian Empire.

Meanwhile Clodius was supposed to be returning to Rome, after he had heard that Cyrus the architect had died, though Cicero, defending Milo, claimed that Clodius had, in fact, arranged an ambush.

She also married Cyrus H. Jhabvala, an Indian Parsi architect, in 1951.

Its subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity, and it is divided into two parts, the first telling the story of the first return of exiles in the first year of Cyrus the Great ( 538 BC ) and the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem in the sixth year of Darius ( 515 BC ), the second telling of the subsequent mission of Ezra to Jerusalem and his struggle to purify the Jews from the sin of marriage with non-Jews.

* Cyrus the Younger ( died 401 BC ), brother to the Persian King Artaxerxes

* Saint Cyrus ( see Cyrus and John ), 4th century Coptic saint

* Cyrus Hamlin ( general ), Union general during American Civil War, son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin

* C. R. Smith ( Cyrus Rowlett Smith ), U. S. Secretary of Commerce under president Lyndon B. Johnson

** Ron Cyrus ( 1935 – 2006 ), Kentucky politician

** Billy Ray Cyrus ( born 1961 ), American musician and actor

** Trace Cyrus ( born 1989 ), American musician ; ( former ) lead guitarist of Metro Station

** Miley Cyrus ( born 1992 ), American actress and singer

** Noah Cyrus ( born 2000 ), American actress

** Annalyn Cyrus ( born 1997 ), American actress

* Cyrus ( Chrono Trigger ), a character in the video game Chrono Trigger

* Cyrus ( 2010 comedy-drama film ), a 2010 comedy film starring John C. Reilly

* Cyrus ( 2010 thriller film ), a 2010 thriller directed by Mark Vadik

* Cyrus ( metal musician ), guitarist for Norwegian band Dimmu Borgir

* Cyrus ( dubstep musician ), English dubstep musician

According to, the Persian emperor, Cyrus the Great ( reigned 559 BCE – 530 BCE ), permitted the return of the exiles to their homeland and ordered the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem ( Zion ).

In 2009, his role in Dazzle ( Oogverblindend ), by avant-garde filmmaker Cyrus Frisch, received positive reviews.

He is the leader of the Persian Empire in the video game Civilization II and III ( along with Scheherazade ), although Civilization IV replaces him with Cyrus the Great and Darius I.

Cambyses II (, Kɑmboujie ,) ( 522 BCE ) son of Cyrus the Great ( r. 559 – 530 BCE ), was a king of kings of the Achaemenid Empire.

The tablets dating from his reign in Babylonia run to the end of his eighth year, in March 522 BCE Herodotus ( 3. 66 ), who dates his reign from the death of Cyrus, gives him seven years five months, from 530 BCE to the summer of 523.

Of the reign of the last Babylonian king, Nabonidus ( Nabu-na ' id ), and the conquest of Babylonia by Cyrus, there is a fair amount of information available.

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

Among the classical Jewish sources, besides the Bible, Josephus ( 1st century A. D .) mentions that Cyrus freed the Jews from captivity and helped rebuild the temple.

The novel features many real life people with their names disguised ; British Prime Minister Joan Carpenter is Margaret Thatcher ( who had only recently become the PM when this novel was published ); American president William " Bill " Matthews is James " Jimmy " Carter ( although the fictional Matthews is finishing up his 2nd term of office in the book, while Carter was nearing the end of his 1st and only Presidential term in 1979 ); his Polish National Security Advisor Stanislaw Poklewski is Zbigniew Brzezinski ; and Secretary of State David Lawrence is Cyrus Vance.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

Xenophon, writing in the fourth century BC, makes a passing reference to division of labour in his ' Cyropaedia ' ( aka Education of Cyrus ).

) An early example of the Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BC work by Xenophon, the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great.

It is suggested by E. Herzfeld that, prior to its annexation to the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great in 6th century B. C., Bactria belonged to the Median empire and together with Margiana formed the twelfth satrapy of Persia.

As against this, Arnold J. Toynbee discusses the issue of two Persian names Kambujiya ( Cambyses ) as well as Kurush ( Cyrus ) elaborately and regards them both as derived from the two Eurasian nomads, the Kambojas and the Kurus mentioned in the Sanskrit texts and who, according him, had entered India and Iran in the Volkerwanderung of 8th and 7th century BCE.

In the 6th century BC, Cyrus, king of Persia, used carrier pigeons to communicate with various parts of his empire.

About 325 it is believed that Constantine's mother, St. Helena, built a small church on the Mount in the 4th century, calling it the Church of St. Cyrus and St. John, later on enlarged and called the Church of the Holy Wisdom.

Ctesias, who lived in the 5th century BC, was physician to Artaxerxes Mnemon, whom he accompanied in 401 BC on his expedition against his brother Cyrus the Younger.

wrote: " The Cyrus of Xenophon was a hero to many a literary man of the sixteenth century, but for Machiavelli he lived ".

There is, however, strong speculation that the kitchen wing of the " House of Hinges " ( or by whatever name ) may reach back as far as the end of the 17th century but may have gone through significant remodeling when the main structure erected was erected by Cyrus Mitchell in the mid 1790s.

Main Street was created in 1819 and has numerous buildings dating back to the nineteenth century, including the Cyrus G. Blatt home ( 501-503 N. Main ), the Eagle Hotel ( 301 N. Main ) and the Joseph B. Conrad home ( 219 N. Main ).

In the early 19th century, a large migration from Rockingham, North Carolina, brought the Adams, Allen, Barnes, Cyrus, Fields, Glenn, Irion, Johnson, Peay, Scales, Taylor, Vernon, Wisener and other families to the area.

The Scofield Reference Bible is a widely circulated study Bible edited and annotated by the American Bible student Cyrus I. Scofield, that popularized dispensationalism at the beginning of the 20th century.

Though difficult to read, The Garden of Cyrus however remains an important work of English literature, primarily because it is incontrovertible evidence that as late as the mid-seventeenth century, isolated individuals throughout Europe continued to subscribe to the tenets of hermetic philosophy.

The Society of Friends established itself here in the mid 17th century, and among the close-knit group of Quaker families were the Clarks: Cyrus started a business in sheepskin rugs, later joined by his brother James, who introduced the production of woollen slippers and, later, boots and shoes.

Al-Biruni ( writing at the beginning of the eleventh century CE ) said that the '" real Sabians '" were " the remnants of the Jewish tribes who remained in Babylonia when the other tribes left it for Jerusalem in the days of Cyrus and Artaxerxes.

In the mid-seventh century, the dromedary was first used in warfare when Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great made use of these animals while fighting with king Croesus of Lydia in 547 CE.

In the 6th century BC, the city was conquered by the Achaemenid king, Cyrus II, and incorporated into the Persian empire.

As against this, Arnold J. Toynbee discusses the issue of two Persian names Kambujiya ( Cambyses ) as well as Kurush ( Cyrus ) elaborately and regards them both as derived from the two Eurasian nomads, the Kambojas and the Kurus mentioned in the Sanskrit texts and who, according him, had entered India and Iran in the Volkerwanderung of 8th and 7th century BCE.

His suggested identification with Cyrus would help connect the Achaemenid dynasty to the major events of the 7th century BC.

And it was annexed to the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great in 6th century BCE and together with Margiana it formed the twelfth satrapy of Persians.