# Cyrus — The Prince character guide

> Cyrus in The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Cyrus, Scipio Cyrus

**First appearance:** 0012-vi-concerning-new-principalities-which-are-acquired-by-one-s-own-arms-and-ability

## Who they are

Founder of the Persian Empire, model of virtuous princely conquest.

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