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Hystaspes (son of Xerxes I) Hystaspes ( Old Persian: 𐎻𐏁𐎫𐎠𐎿𐎱 Vištāspa; Ancient Greek: Ὑστάσπης Hustáspēs) was the second son of the Persian king Xerxes I. [1] When his father was assassinated by the vizier Artabanus, Hystaspes' younger brother Artaxerxes I ascended the throne. [2] According to Diodorus of Sicily ...
Xerxes I.a edo Xerxes Handia [1] ( antzinako persieraz: Xšaya-ṛšā; persieraz: خشایارشا, antzinako grezieraz: Ξερξης eta hebreeraz: אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ; Persia, K.a. 519 – K.a. 465) Persiako Errege Handia (Shah) izan zen. Mediar Gerretan zehar Termopiletako guduan Espartako Leonidas I.a erregea eta 300 ...
Mardonius was the son of Gobryas, a Persian nobleman who had assisted the Achaemenid prince Darius when he claimed the throne. The alliance between the new king and his friend was cemented by diplomatic marriages: Darius married Gobryas' daughter, and Gobryas married Darius' sister. Furthermore, Mardonius married Darius' daughter Artozostra.
Leonidas I. Leonidas I ( / liˈɒnɪdəs, - dæs /; Greek: Λεωνίδας; died 11 August 480 BC) was a king of the Greek city-state of Sparta, and the 17th of the Agiad line, a dynasty which claimed descent from the mythical demigod Heracles. Leonidas I was a son of the king Anaxandridas II. He succeeded his half-brother King Cleomenes I to ...
Serse (Italian pronunciation:; English title: Xerxes; HWV 40) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in London on 15 April 1738. The Italian libretto was adapted by an unknown hand from that by Silvio Stampiglia (1664–1725) for an earlier opera of the same name by Giovanni Bononcini in 1694.
The Jar of Xerxes I is a jar in calcite or alabaster, an alabastron, with the quadrilingual signature of Achaemenid ruler Xerxes I (ruled 486–465 BC), which was discovered in the ruins of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in Caria, modern Turkey, at the foot of the western staircase. [1] It is now in the British Museum, though not currently on ...
Xerxes I, commonly known as Xerxes the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC. He was the son of Darius the Great and Atossa, a daughter of Cyrus the Great. In Western history, Xerxes is best known for his invasion of Greece in 480 BC, which ended in Persian defeat. Xerxes was designated ...
