The Real Xerxes: The True Ruler Beyond 300 Posted: 10 January 2025 | Last updated: 10 January 2025 Xerxes the Great was the fourth King of Kings who ruled the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. Known in ...

Xerxes had spent years planning his invasion of Greece. It was to be his 'divine punishment' for his father Darius' crushing defeat at Marathon in 490 BC. Now, a decade later, he had spared no ...