Cyrus the Great
Articles by Western and iranian Scholars
- Professor Richard Nelson Frye: Cyrus the Great
- Professor George C. Cameroon: Cyrus the “father” and Babylonia (pdf).
- Professor Jakob Jonsson: Cyrus the Great in Icelandic Epics – a Literary Study (pdf).
- Professor Charles Roux and Cyrus the Great
- Hirad Abtahi: Reflections on the Ambiguous Universality of Human Rights: Cyrus the Great’s Proclamation as a Challenge to the Athenian Democracy’s Percieved Monopoly on Human Rights (pdf)
Articles by Iranian Scholars (in Persian)
- Amir Hossein Khanji: Cyrus the Great and the Achaemenid Dynasty (in Persian text only; pdf).
- Jalal Khaleghi Motlagh: Kaykhosrow and Cyrus (in Persian text only; pdf).
- از زبان كورش – Cyrus’ own Words (in Persian text only; By Dr. Ali Doostzadeh)
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کورش، افتخار ايران Cyrus the Pride of Iran (in Persian text only; By Dr. Ali Doostzadeh).
- چرا كورش؟ در پاسخ به مينا خوابگرد- Why Cyrus? In Response to Mina Khabgerd (in Persian text only; By Dr. Ali Doostzadeh).
- The Persian Christian Research Center: Article on Cyrus the Great (in Persian)
The Cyrus Cylinder
- Translation of the Cyrus Cylinder by the British Museum (posted May 15, 2009)
- Discovery of Chinese bones bearing inscriptions of Cyrus the Great’s Proclaimations
Cyrus the Great and the Jews
- Professor Amnon Netzer: Some notes on the Characterization of Cyrus the Great in Jewish and Judeo-Persian Writings (pdf).
- President Harry S. Truman: “I am Cyrus”
The Greco-Romans and the Jews
- Book (download in pdf):FJörg Frey, Daniel R. Schwartz & Stephanie Gripentrog (Editors, 2007). Jewish Identity in the Greco-Roman World. Leiden: Boston.
Cyrus the Great and the Shahname
