This builder of the Hall of a Hundred Columns put an end to the ritual of clasping the hand of Marduk on every New Year's Day by melting down the statue of Marduk in Babylon to punish a rebellion.
This builder of the Hall of a Hundred Columns put an end to the ritual of clasping the hand of Marduk on every New Year's Day by melting down the statue of Marduk in Babylon to punish a rebellion. At the insistence of Mardonius, he launched another campaign, during which he whipped the sea for the insolence displayed in destroying his pontoon bridge of boats. The battles of Plataea ("pluh-TAY-uh") and Salamis helped drive back this Achaemenid ("ack-EYE-muh- nid") king from that invasion. For 10 points, name this ruler who also lost at Thermopylae and thus failed at accomplishing a Persian invasion of Greece.
This builder of the Hall of a Hundred Columns put an end to the ritual of clasping the hand of Marduk on every New Year's Day by melting down the statue of Marduk in Babylon to punish a rebellion.
{Xerxes} I (ZERK-zees) (or {Xerxes} the Great; or {Khshayarsha}; or {Ahasuerus} (“AH-chash-VER-osh”))