the worst ever distorted version of the truth.

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2013)

My summation above.......awful insecurity in some people have led to this very absurd portrayal of the Persian king, Xerxes, who was a highly cultured and artistic person, driven to conquer the Greek world as a political agenda; and the losses in battle were seen as distant border setbacks......the Persian Empire stretched from Ionia-western Turkey and the Danube basin west of the Black Sea to the Indus river in western India.
Alexander the Great conquered this Empire , but he had a great change of heart and began the process of adopting Persian court protocol , wearing the Persian royal purple, and marrying 2 Persian princesses.
The Persian Acaemenid Empire had actually lasted for 200 odd years, Alexander's Empire disintegrated on his death into 5 warring kingdoms.