In both the films produced thus far, the villain of the story is the giant, heavily bejeweled Persian king known as Xerxes. Western history has constantly maintained that Xerxes was a monstrous ...

It's all in All About History 125. Xerxes (the Greek spelling of his name), was the king of the Persian Empire from 486 to 465 BCE. He is remembered in western scholarship for his defeat by ...

(Ken Feisel) Glazed bricks adorned the entryway’s interior, and two identical trilingual texts, inscribed in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian, read: “I, Xerxes, the great king, king of ...

The canal therefore carried an element of grandstanding. Xerxes, like other Persian sovereigns, bore the title “King of Kings.” Like many who had come before him, he seems to have shared the ...

commonly known as Xerxes the Great, commanded 300,000 troops to conquer Greece. The justification for the invasion was that Greece encouraged slaves in Persia to rebel against the king, but it was ...

The history of classical Greece is largely defined by divisions, both within and between city-states. Revolutions and coups, shifts in alliances and alignments, and nearly continuous balance-of ...

An inscription bearing the name of Persian King Darius the Great ... Darius the Great was the father of Xerxes I, who is identified with King Ahasuerus from the Purim story. The Darius inscription.