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Who the ..... was Xerxes?
Who the ..... was Xerxes?
Khashayarsha (help·info)) "ruling over heroes",[2] Greek Ξέρξης[ksérksɛːs]; 518–465 BC), called Xerxes the Great, was the fourth king of kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia. He ruled from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC at the hands of Artabanus, the commander of the royal bodyguard.Xerxes I is most likely the Persian king identified as Ahasuerus (Hebrewאֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ Hebrew pronunciation: [ˀaxaʃveroʃ]) in the biblical Book of Esther.[3][4][5] He is also notable in Western history for his invasion of Greece in 480 BC. Like his predecessor Darius I, he ruled the empire at its territorial apex, although Xerxes I would briefly manage to conquer even more land of mainland Greece than Darius I through the battles at Thermopylae and Artemisium, overrunning Attica, Boeotia, Euboea, Thessaly,[6] and the rest of mainland Greece to the north of the Isthmus of Corinth,[7] until the losses at Salamis and Plataea which reversed these gains and would eventually end the second invasion decisively.
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