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books-google-com-2734		Xerxes: A Persian Life - Richard Stoneman - Google Books			.html	text/html	669	87	66	Xerxes: A Persian Life Richard Stoneman Google Books Try the new Google Books Try the new Google Books Try the new Google Books Yale University Press, Aug 15, 2015 Biography & Autobiography 288 pages Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486–465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his reputation destroyed by later Greek writers and by the propaganda of Alexander the Great. User Review KirkusStoneman (Pindar, 2014, etc.) sorts through millennia of literature and histories to try to reveal Xerxes, the powerful ruler of the Achaemenid Empire. chapter two The Persian Empire Richard Stoneman is Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Exeter, and the author of numerous books. Author Richard Stoneman	./cache/books-google-com-2734.html	./txt/books-google-com-2734.txt