Xerxes the Great, also known as Xerxes I of Persia, (Old Persian: ; Xšayāršā) (reigned 485–465 BC) was a Zoroastrian Persian Shahanshah (Emperor) of the Achaemenid Empire.
Xerxes was the son of Darius the Great and his wife Atossa. He succeeded his father in 486 BC with a very smooth transition of power challenged by no subject nation of the huge Achaemenid empire.
The name Xerxes (English pronunciation: /'zɝksiːz/) comes, via Latin, from Ancient...
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Xerxes the Great, also known as Xerxes I of Persia, (Old Persian: ; Xšayāršā) (reigned 485–465 BC) was a Zoroastrian Persian Shahanshah (Emperor) of the Achaemenid Empire.
Xerxes was the son of Darius the Great and his wife Atossa. He succeeded his father in 486 BC with a very smooth transition of power challenged by no subject nation of the huge Achaemenid empire.
The name Xerxes (English pronunciation: /'zɝksiːz/) comes, via Latin, from Ancient Greek: Ξέρξης, which in turn derives from Old Persian: (Xšayāršā). The name has appeared in many inscriptions in languages spoken in various parts of his vast empire: in Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian (Demotic), etc. The Greek name is recorded in Histories of Herodotus and Bibliotheca historica of Diodorus.
Among the historians, Herodotus mentions in his history book that Xerxes means warrior. This is however disputed and not accepted by modern scholars. A modern proposal is that "Xerxes" should mean "Hero among rulers"....
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