Cyrus the Great Author:Harold Lamb Cyrus the Great presents a luminously learned, almost clairvoyant revelation of an ancient world of myth and superstition, of history mixed with fantasy, of people moving partly on the hard earth and partly on dreams. Here is the story of a king--tough son of a tough father--fighting, conquering the Medes, Lydia, Babylonia, threatening Egypt, a... more »nd then turning his never-resting eyes toward the irresistible quest of "the eastern limbo of the world."« less