In search of Xerxes: images of the Persian king

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In search of Xerxes: images of the Persian king

Clough, Emma Elizabeth

Doctoral thesis, Durham University (2004)

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The figure of Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, is known to us primarily through Greek sources... [continue reading]

Posted by Jan van der Crabben on January 5, 2012, 04:31.

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