Xerxes
Subtitle: a Persian life
By: Richard Stoneman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780300180077
Subjects: Kings and rulers; Biography; History
Description: "In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his reputation destroyed by later Greek writers and by the propaganda of Alexander the Great. Stoneman draws on the latest research in Achaemenid studies and archaeology to present the ruler from the Persian perspective."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.