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Xerxes - A Persian Life (Hardcover)
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Xerxes - A Persian Life (Hardcover)
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The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history
Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 B.C., has
gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition.
The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae
is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes' expedition
has overshadowed all the other achievements of his twenty-two-year
reign. In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard
Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the
contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his
reputation destroyed by later Greek writers and by the propaganda
of Alexander the Great. Stoneman draws on the latest research in
Achaemenid studies and archaeology to present the ruler from the
Persian perspective. This illuminating volume does not whitewash
Xerxes' failings but sets against them such triumphs as the
architectural splendor of Persepolis and a consideration of Xerxes'
religious commitments. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of a man
who ruled a vast and multicultural empire which the Greek
communities of the West saw as the antithesis of their own values.
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