Xerxes: A Persian Life

by Richard Stoneman

The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history

Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes' expedition has overshadowed all the other achievements of his twenty-two-year reign.

In this lively and comprehensive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300180071
• ISBN13: 9780300180077
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"