The Hidden History of Xerxes I: The Great King of the Persian Empire

Xerxes I was a king of the Achaemenid Empire, who ruled ancient Persia between 486 BC and 465 BC. He is known primarily for his campaign against Greece, particularly his attempt to defeat Sparta, one of the prominent Greek city-states. During his reign, the famous Battle of Thermopylae took place, where the Greek fleet won a decisive victory over the Persians, preventing the expansion of the Persian Empire in Greece. Xerxes is remembered as one of the most prominent rulers of the vast Persian Empire, whose attempted domination over Greece was a significant turning point in ancient history.

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[moviekris]

If you want to see a character portrayed in two vastly different ways, watch “300” and then watch “One Night with the King”

[rubencanizalez]

Excellent documentary …. You all bring history alive!!!!

[miladd]

1:45
Another key point for Xerxes being more fit for the role of Shahanshah was that her mother was the daughter of Cyrus the Great…

[ville]

300 did him dirty by portraying him as a bald, shiny, and effeminate Johnny Sins.

[tyrrant]

I like how you mention according to Herodotus. For those who don't know Herodotus wanted his stories to sound cooler so he might have exasperated just a little tiny bit xD(i choose to believe him because i like my history like that)

[silverchairsg]

During my National Service in the army in Singapore, there was a sergeant in battalion HQ named Xerxes. The regimental sergeant major, whose English wasn't super good due to him having lower educational attainment and hailing from a Chinese dialect speaking home, always called him Zeus. 😆

[rabiakanwal]

A great lesson
I have cleared my whole concepts😊

[-RONNIE]

Thank you for the video & information

[muhammadsulaiman]

Veteran Russule said, the graveyard is full of the great people.
But the world bring out the new legendary figures who are called the Genus's

[arthurvasquez]

I really liked this documentary it gave me a lot of information in my research. Keep up the good work.

[YeahYeahb-tch]

The whole world will bow to you, if only you bow to ME Am I not a merciful god- Xerxes I

[jimmyfarari]

No the allied greeks or other "greeks"(quotations because it was not united and they were allies with greece during the cyrus the great) were the results of revolts and they were very smart and did a lot of revolts in couple of other places in persian empire

[cyraxthecyborg]

Clearly this guy has never seen the historically accurate xerxes biopic called 300

[dessertflower]

And his real last name is Convist and he's the brother of Zeus, Matthias Convist and also the brother of my grandfather Van

[israelicitizen]

This is the western point of view of the story.

[Historyfactory]

Please which software donu use for video editing

[jap.adazol]

Sounds familiar with the movie "300"?

[slickrick]

He got the Israelites out of captivity 🙏

[rs]

His actual name was "ksharashra".

[tmeezulsingh]

And it's Philip who wanted revenge alexender was just doing beacuse his father prepared a lot for this