Xerxes has taken the bait.
King Xerxes is displeased with his generals.
You have many slaves, Xerxes, but few warriors.
Xerxes' general again demands their surrender.
Xerxes also had no idea Esther was Jewish.
Whom will Xerxes dare to send next?
Xerxes brought it forth and before that.
His son Xerxes I completed it 30 years later.
But you bring only this handful of soldiers against Xerxes?
Xerxes conquers and controls everything he rests his eyes upon.
The next two kings, Xerxes and ArtaXerxes I, were weak.
King Ahasuerus( Xerxes I) has appointed Haman as prime minister.
Xerxes I(485-465 BCE),
son of Darius I, vowed to complete the job.
water a token of Sparta's submission to the will of Xerxes.
water… a token of Sparta's submission to the will of Xerxes.
We saw but a fraction of the monster that is Xerxes' army.
It was built by Dario in two phases and completed by Xerxes.
If you but lay down your arms and kneel to holy Xerxes.
Xerxes brought it forth and before that, his father, Darius, at Marathon.
Into that narrow corridor we march… where Xerxes' numbers count for nothing.
We send the severed bodies and the fragile hearts back to Xerxes' feet.
Our hunchback traitor led Xerxes' Immortals to the hidden goat path behind us.
Our hunchback traitor led Xerxes' lmmortals to the hidden goat path behind us.
Run along and tell your Xerxes he faces free men here… not slaves.
Go now. Run along and tell your Xerxes he faces free men here.
In response, Xerxes sends in his elite guard, the Immortals, later that night.
Xerxes announces:“And among these countries there was a place where
previously daiva were worshiped.
A hunchback traitor has led Xerxes' Immortals to the hidden goat path behind us.