Before this man was assassinated with the help of Aspamithres, he notably crushed a revolt led by Shamash-eriba, and purportedly absconded with a statue of Marduk.
Before this man was assassinated with the help of Aspamithres, he notably crushed a revolt led by Shamash-eriba, and purportedly absconded with a statue of Marduk. Not much of his later life is known, as Ctesias only covers his assassination and the extramarital affair of his daughter, Amytis. In his early reign he crushed the rebellion of Bel-shimanni in Babylon and a revolt in Egypt that he inherited from his father. He received Gongylus, a messenger from the Spartan commander Pausanius, who asked for a Persian wife. He may be best known for a campaign which included building a canal through the Chalcidice and battles at Artemisium, Thermopylae, and Salamis. For ten points, name this Persian king who succeeded Darius I.
Before this man was assassinated with the help of Aspamithres, he notably crushed a revolt led by Shamash-eriba, and purportedly absconded with a statue of Marduk.
{Xerxes} I or {Khshayarshah} I