By Stoneman, Richard; Iran König Xerxes I.; King of Persia Xerxes I
ISBN-10: 0300180071
ISBN-13: 9780300180077
during this vigorous and entire new biography, Richard Stoneman exhibits how Xerxes, regardless of sympathetic therapy via the modern Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his attractiveness destroyed via later Greek writers and by means of the propaganda of Alexander the good. Stoneman attracts at the most recent learn in Achaemenid experiences and archaeology to offer the ruler from the Persian standpoint. This illuminating quantity doesn't whitewash Xerxes’ failings yet units opposed to them such triumphs because the architectural beauty of Persepolis and a attention of Xerxes’ spiritual commitments. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of a guy who governed an unlimited and multicultural empire which the Greek groups of the West observed because the antithesis in their personal values.
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This 2 INTRODUCTION 3 equipoise will confront us constantly as we set about constructing a picture of the Persian king in his own right. 11 Even the ghost of his father Darius asserts that his mind is diseased (line 750) and ‘my son Xerxes is a young man who thinks young thoughts and does not remember my injunction’ (lines 782–83). (Xerxes was probably in his thirties when he undertook his expedition; but at H. ) Later writers in antiquity took a similar view. Ctesias’ surviving remarks on Xerxes are too brief to offer an interpretation, but Plato (Laws 695ce) saw Xerxes as the degenerate son of a great father, ruined by a ‘womanish’ education.
We shall look more carefully at this story in Chapter 8, but there is little doubt that, fictional though it is, the King Ahasuerus of the Book of Esther stands for the historical Xerxes. The story in Esther is so different in character from anything in the Greeks (even Ctesias) that it brings home to us how dependent we are and always have been on the Greek authors for the picture we hold of Xerxes. What have we learnt of Xerxes so far? He is an incompetent commander in war, and in private he is weepy, angry, cruel, arrogant, hedonistic, never 10 XERXES satisfied.
Oh yes. He knew. He was horrified. He hoped that by devoting himself to Zoroaster he could expiate the crime of Darius. 27 Darius, the son of Hystaspes, thus became king of the Persian Empire. Like Cambyses, but unlike his successors, he had numerous wives, including the daughter of Gobryas, the daughter of Bardiya, and two sisters, Artystone and Atossa, both daughters of Cyrus; he also married his own niece Phratagyne, who bore him two sons. No brothers are named in the sources, but Darius had at least four sisters: one of them married Otanes and became the mother of Amestris, Xerxes’ wife; a third married Teaspes; and a fourth married Gobryas28 and became the mother of the general Mardonius.
Xerxes : a Persian life by Stoneman, Richard; Iran König Xerxes I.; King of Persia Xerxes I
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