xerxes in English

noun

king of Persia between 486 - 465 B.C.

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1. For seven days, Xerxes mourned paralyzed by grief.

2. Xerxes I was known for his mercurial, violent temper.

3. Among other traits of character, Xerxes was an aesthete.

4. Stone relief of Xerxes (standing) and Darius the Great (seated)

5. Xerxes conquers and controls everything he rests his eyes upon.

6. Nevertheless, Xerxes and his chief advisor Mardonius pressed for an attack.

7. Xerxes, sitting on Mount Aigaleo on his throne, witnessed the carnage.

8. Artemisia Was The Only Naval Officer Who Advised Xerxes I Against The Battle Of Salamis

9. Ten years later Darius' successor, Xerxes I, sent a much more powerful force by land.

10. Two unusual clay tablets may bear additional testimony to the coregency of Xerxes with Darius.

11. "Ostanes", one of the magi accompanying Xerxes, was also said to have taught him.

12. Ahasuerus (Xerxes I) is shown as ruling over 127 jurisdictional districts, from India to Ethiopia.

13. According to Herodotus, Queen Artemisia of Caria pointed this out to Xerxes in the run-up to Salamis.

14. But Eretria was a polis which could wage war on Xerxes of Persia if it chose, and it did.

15. I merely told them that Amazon-type females do not live in Alpha Centauri, but on Xerxes Four.

16. Xerxes sent the Immortals, whose march-discipline on rough tracks in the dark might be equal to the task.

17. During his stay a fire broke out in the eastern palace of Xerxes I and spread to the rest of the city.

18. In 212 he gave his sister Antiochis in marriage to King Xerxes of Armenia, who acknowledged his suzerainty and paid him tribute

19. Xerxes passed the vacant eyes and empty souls of the hollow creatures that dwell in the dark corners of all men's hearts.

20. In 212 he gave his sister Antiochis in marriage to King Xerxes of Armenia, who acknowledged his suzerainty and paid him tribute

21. THE Persian King Xerxes I, known in the Bible as Ahasuerus, was reviewing his troops prior to a battle in the year 480 B.C.E.

22. Assyrians became front line soldiers for the Persian empire under King Xerxes, playing a major role in the Battle of Marathon under King Darius I in 490 BC

23. Therefore these documents do not relate to an accession period of Xerxes following the death of his father but indicate an accession year during his coregency with Darius.

24. For example, the eunuchs Hegai and Shaashgaz served as guardians of the wives and concubines of Persian King Ahasuerus, who is thought to be Xerxes I. —Esther 2:3, 14.

25. Xerxes had also positioned around 400 troops on the island known as Psyttaleia, in the middle of the exit from the straits, in order to kill or capture any Greeks who ended up there (as a result of shipwreck or grounding).

26. Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions The palace decoration of Ashurbanipal Assyria vs Elam: The battle of Til Tuba Persian Browse this content Ancient Persia, an introduction The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia Capital of a column from the audience hall of the palace of Darius I, Susa Persepolis: The Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes Parthian

27. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the Persian Shah Xerxes once boasted, "The Sun shall not shine on no land that is not our own." This would be no empty boast, given the immense power controlled by the Achaemenids, who are by far the greatest power of the known world.