Redigerer Kyros den store (avsnitt)

== Litteratur ==
;Antikke kilder
* Strabon: ''Geografika''
* Arrianos: ''Anabasis Alexandri''
* Herodot: ''Historier''
* Ktesias: ''Persika''
* Xenofon: ''Kyropedia''
* Quintus Curtius Rufus: ''Bibliotek av verdenshistorie''
* Plutark: ''Livene''
* Diodorus Siculus: ''Bibliotheca historica''
* Strabon: ''Historie''

;Moderne kilder
* Boardman, John, red. (1994): ''The Cambridge Ancient History IV: Persia, Greece, and the Western Mediterranean, C. 525–479 B.C.'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22804-2.
* Cardascia, G (1988): [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/babylon-under-the-achaemenids «Babylon under Achaemenids»], ''Encyclopaedia Iranica''. bind 3. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-939214-78-4.
* Chavalas, Mark W., red. (2007): ''The ancient Near East : historical sources in translation''. Malden, MA: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-23580-9.
* Church, Alfred J. (1881): [https://archive.org/details/storieseastfrom00churgoog ''Stories of the East From Herodotus'']. London: Seeley, Jackson & Halliday.
* Dandamaev, M.A. (1989): ''A political history of the Achaemenid empire''. Leiden: Brill, ISBN 90-04-09172-6, s. 373.
* Freeman, Charles (1999): ''The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World''. New York: Viking. ISBN 0-7139-9224-7.
* Fried, Lisbeth S. (2002): «Cyrus the Messiah? The Historical Background to Isaiah 45:1», ''Harvard Theological Review''. '''95''' (4). doi:[https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0017816002000251 10.1017/S0017816002000251].
* Frye, Richard N. (1962): ''The Heritage of Persia''. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 1-56859-008-3
* Gershevitch, Ilya (1985): ''The Cambridge History of Iran: Vol. 2 ; The Median and Achaemenian periods''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-20091-1.
* Moorey, P.R.S. (1991): ''The Biblical Lands'', '''VI'''. New York: Peter Bedrick Books . ISBN 0-87226-247-2
* Olmstead, A. T. (1948): ''History of the Persian Empire [Achaemenid Period]''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-62777-2
* Schmitt, Rüdiger (1983): [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/achaemenid-dynasty «Achaemenid dynasty»], ''Encyclopaedia Iranica''. bind 3. London: Routledge.
* Schmitt, Rüdiger; Shahbazi, A. Shapur; Dandamayev, Muhammad A.; Zournatzi, Antigoni (1993): [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/cyrus-index «Cyrus»], ''Encyclopaedia Iranica''. bind 6. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-939214-78-4.
* Schmitt, Rüdiger (2010): «Cyrus i. The Name», , ''Encyclopaedia Iranica'', London: Routledge
* Tait, Wakefield (1846): [https://books.google.com/?id=khYEAAAAQAAJ ''The Presbyterian review and religious journal''], Oxford University