title: 580 BC
text: # 580 BC
  
  The year 580 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 174 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 580 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Gorgon Medusa, detail of sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of Artemis, Korkyra, is made (approximate date). It is now at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.
  * Standing Youth (Kouros) is made (approximate date). It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
  * Cambyses I succeeds his father Cyrus I as king of Anshan and head of the Achaemenid Dynasty.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Cyrus I, king of Anshan
  