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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

True Iranians have remained friends of the Jews through both belief and deed. A look at the history of Iran and the Jews.

King Leonidas leads 300 soldiers into battle against King Xerxes and his massive Persian army. While Leonidas and his soldiers successfully fend off several waves of Persian soldiers, they are ...

(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 ...

Loosely based on the life of the ancient King of Persia, “Xerxes” is a tangled love story about a tyrant testing the limits of his power. Though betrothed to Amastre, Xerxes pursues Romilda ...

King Xerxes of Persia exiles (almost kills) his current queen, who has spoken out, and all the virgins of the land are paraded in front of him for consideration as the new matriarch. A Jewish girl ...