In 480 B.C.E., King Leonidas of Sparta led 7,000 men against an estimated 300,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of ...

In both the films produced thus far, the villain of the story is the giant, heavily bejeweled Persian king known as Xerxes. Western history has constantly maintained that Xerxes was a monstrous ...

Here’s how it works. The son and grandson of men who had forged the Achaemenid Empire, Xerxes I was born to rule in Ancient Persia, but his path to the throne was not as simple as it might have ...

The conflicts that followed brought the Persian and Greek worlds closer together and set the stage for a drastic reshaping of ...

Xerxes, like other Persian sovereigns ... but many historians concur that 12 stadia is consistent with the 1.25 miles that make up the width of the peninsula at the site where the canal was ...

Where are the Prince of Persia The Lost Crown Xerxes coins? Xerxes coins are a currency primarily found at the end of difficult platforming challenges throughout Mount Qaf; however, some come as ...

11-30. Gaddis, John Lewis: On Grand Strategy (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2018), chapter 1 Stoneman, Richard: Xerxes: A Persian Life (New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2015). Season 4 of Talking Strategy is brought ...

The history of classical Greece is largely defined by divisions, both within and between city-states. Revolutions and coups, shifts in alliances and alignments, and nearly continuous balance-of ...