the ledger of connections
The Connections of Cyrus the Great
Founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC) Every person recorded alongside Cyrus the Great in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Cyrus the Great in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Cambyses I, Mandane of Media
- Spouses
- Cassandane, Amytis, Neithiyti
- Children
- Cambyses II, Bardiya, Atossa, Roxane, Artystone
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 600 BCE to 530 BCE.
Ancient era
Gautama Buddha
563 BCE – 483 BCE
Founder of Buddhism whose teachings on suffering and liberation endure worldwide
Ancient era
Confucius
552 BCE – 479 BCE
Chinese philosopher whose ethics shaped East Asian civilization for 2,500 years
Ancient era
Laozi
604 BCE – c. 500 BCE
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
Ancient era
Zoroaster
628 BCE – 551 BCE
Founder of Zoroastrianism
Ancient era
Nebuchadnezzar II
642 BCE – 561 BCE
King of Babylon
Ancient era
Darius I
550 BCE – 486 BCE
The fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor (522–486 BC)
Ancient era
Thales of Miletus
c. 650 BCE – 548 BCE
Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
Ancient era
Pythagoras
c. 550 BCE – c. 490 BCE
Greek mathematician and mystic of number and harmony
Ancient era
Heraclitus
535 BCE – c. 470 BCE
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
Ancient era
Sun Tzu
544 BCE – 496 BCE
6th century BCE Chinese general and military strategist
Ancient era
Sappho
c. 650 BCE – c. 550 BCE
Ancient Greek poet from Lesbos (c. 630-c. 570 BC)
Ancient era
Aesop
620 BCE – 564 BCE
Ancient Greek storyteller (619 BC–563 BC)