the conqueror of Babylon (Dan. 5:30) in 539, who was sixty-two years old then, with Cyrus.73 Herodotus knew of four versions of Cyrus’s youth (1:107–30). These legendary accounts have been compared with the stories of the rise of Sargon of Agade (twenty-third century B.C.) and with the account of Romulus, the founder of Rome (eighth century B.C.).74 As in many other examples from Greek folklore, Herodotus tells about a dream that forewarned Astyages that his grandson, if allowed to live,