historians believe may have been involved in Xerxes’
murder. Although remembered for the historic battles
at Thermopylae and Salamis, Xerxes’ reign as a whole
is forgotten despite his governance of one of the great
empires of the world.
References: Olmstead, Albert Ten Eyck, History of the
Persian Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1948); Green, Peter, The Greco-Persian Wars (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1996); Hignett, Charles,
Xerxes’ Invasion of Greece (Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press,
1963); Green, Peter, Xerxes at Salamis (New York: Praeger,
1970); George Bruce, “Salamis I,” in Collins Dictionary
of Wars (Glasgow, Scotland: HarperCollins Publishers,
1995), 219. xeRxeS