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en-m-wikipedia-org-3064		Xerxes I - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5293	611	72	336–323 BC), who had him vilified.[12] The modern historian Richard Stoneman regards the portrayal of Xerxes as more nuanced and tragic in the work of the contemporary Greek historian Herodotus.[12] However, many modern historians agree that Herodotus recorded spurious information.[13][14] Pierre Briant has accused him of presenting a stereotyped and biased portrayal of the Persians.[15] Many Achaemenid-era clay tablets and other reports written in Elamite, Akkadian, Egyptian and Aramaic are frequently contradictory to the reports of classical authors, i.e. Ctesias, Plutarch and Justin.[16] This account of education among the Persian elite is supported by Xenophon's description of the 5th-century BC Achaemenid prince Cyrus the Younger, with whom he was well-acquainted.[24] Stoneman suggests that this was the type of upbringing and education that Xerxes experienced.[25] It is unknown if Xerxes ever learned to read or write, with the Persians favouring oral history over written literature.[25] Stoneman suggests that Xerxes' upbringing and education was possibly not much different from that of the later Iranian kings, such as Abbas the Great, king of the Safavid Empire in the 17th-century AD.[25] Starting from 498 BC, Xerxes resided in the royal palace of Babylon.[26]	./cache/en-m-wikipedia-org-3064.html	./txt/en-m-wikipedia-org-3064.txt