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Cyrus The Great
About this book
Cyrus the Great was a brilliant general who founded the Persian Empire, greatest empire of its day. He was also the king who freed the Jews from exile at Babylon and allowed them to return to Jerusalem, with the Bible describing him as the only non Jew "anointed by god." Cyrus influenced the US Bill of Rights, and is the biblical figure to whom US President Donald Trump has been favorably compared by Christian evangelicals and the Prime Minister of Israel.
In this first ever modern biography of Cyrus, noted historical biographer and author of 43 books Stephen Dando-Collins describes Cyrus' fraught youth, his rise to power via rebellion, his dashing military campaigns that destroyed the Median, Lydian and Babylonian empires, and his uniquely magnanimous reign.
With his usual depth of research and highly readable narrative Dando-Collins cuts through myth and folklore to deliver a fascinating account of a fascinating life.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Our Sources on Cyrus
- Chapter 1: Kill the Child
- Chapter 2: Deporting the Jews to Babylon
- Chapter 3: The Boy in the Basket
- Chapter 4: Saved by the Magi
- Chapter 5: Jerusalem Destroyed
- Chapter 6: In the Court of the King
- Chapter 7: Leading the Persian Revolt
- Chapter 8: Cyrus’s First Battle
- Chapter 9: Battle of the Border
- Chapter 10: Battle of Pasargadae: The Fall of Astyages
- Chapter 11: A Mighty Empire Will Be Destroyed
- Chapter 12: Croesus Versus Cyrus
- Chapter 13: Sardis: The Fallen Helmet
- Chapter 14: Killing a King
- Chapter 15: Feet of Clay
- Chapter 16: Marching on Babylon
- Chapter 17: The Writing Is on the Wall for Nabonidus
- Chapter 18: Cyrus Frees the Jews of Babylon
- Chapter 19: “Do Not Grudge Me My Monument”
- Chapter 20: The Sons of Cyrus
- Chapter 21: Darius and the Jerusalem Temple
- Epilogue: Was Cyrus Great? And Is There a Modern Parallel?
- Afterword
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index