This man's earthquake-resistant tomb sits atop a six-layered step pyramid and was restored byAristobulus on orders from Alexander the Great.
This man's earthquake-resistant tomb sits atop a six-layered step pyramid and was restored byAristobulus on orders from Alexander the Great. Much of this man's propaganda was aimed atcasting himself as a better ruler than Nabonidus, whom he defeated at Opis. His daughter Atossa andthe nobleman Otanes helped kill a Magi named Guatama who was masquerading as this man's sonBardiya. Xenophon wrote a (*) namesake biography of this man, who gained access to the Aegean bydefeating Croesus of Lydia at Thymbra and established capitals at Ecbatana and Pasargadae. Harpagus'sdefection helped this man overthrow Astyages to supplant the Medes. Known for a namesake Cylinder, for10 points, name this father of Cambyses II, an Achaemenid who founded the Persian Empire.
This man's earthquake-resistant tomb sits atop a six-layered step pyramid and was restored byAristobulus on orders from Alexander the Great.
Cyrus the Great [or Cyrus II]