Christopher is a writer and musician who spends as much time as possible playing video games and watching anime. He is often found repeatedly dying at the hands of random FromSoftware bosses, though ...

Outnumbered and undaunted, Spartan warriors and other Greek troops held firm in the face of Persia's might, until treachery brought King Xerxes' fury down upon them in 480 B.C. Undaunted“By this time ...

From the rise of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE to the vast dominion of Darius and Xerxes, the First Persian ...

Xerxes has returned home to the Persian Empire as its ruler. We see the beginning and ending of his rule. We see him seeking a wife and finding it in Esther, niece of Mordecai of Judea. She marries ...

It was Xerxes of Persia who caused a throne to be built for himself on the crest of the mountain overlooking Salamis so that he might enjoy the pageant of his conquest;--but it was a Grecian galley ...

A 22-centimeter alabaster vase, inscribed to the Persian king Xerxes I, has revealed that narcotics were part of everyday ...

One bright spring day in 480 B.C., the Persian King Xerxes was reviewing his vast land and sea forces, mustered at the Dardanelles strait for his great invasion of Greece. When he saw the whole ...

Miller’s latest is Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander, which follows the exploits of the Persian King Darius. The series kicked off with a brutal battle and one that ...

Artemisia, named after the Goddess Artemis, sister of Apollo, is the only woman Herodotus attributes with the virtue of courage, or andreia, an almost impossible quality for a woman to possess since ...