Xerxes I
Biography
Darius son, Xerxes bridged the Hellespont, whipped the sea in legend, and invaded Greece 480 with an army Herodotus numbered in millions, realistically 300,000. Thermopylae fell, Leonidas and the 300, Athens burned, then Salamis, the fleet tricked into the straits, destroyed. Plataea 471 ended the invasion. The nemesis of Greek freedom in their own telling, the God King of the 300 films.
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