Xerxes I

Xerxes I
Keeng o Keengs o Persie
Xerxes I, frae Hadish Palace at Persepolis.
Ring	486 - 465 BC
Coronation	October 486 BC
Predecessor	Darius I
Successor	Artaxerxes I
Born	518 BC Persie
Dee'd	465 BC (aged 54) Persie
Buirial	Persie
Hoose	Persia
Dynasty	Achaemenid Empire
Faither	Darius I
Mither	Atossa
Releegion	Zoroastrianism

Xerxes I o Persie (/ˈzɜːrksiːz/; Auld Persie: [Xšaya-ṛšā] IPA: [xʃajaːrʃaː] meanin "rulin ower heroes";New Persie: خشایارشا ; Greek: Ξέρξης [ksérksɛːs]; Ebreu: אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ‬, Modren Aẖashverosh, Tiberian ʼĂḥašwērôš), forby kent as Xerxes the Great (519–465 BC), wis the fowerth o the keengs o Achaemenid Empire. Xerxes I is mair nor likely the Persie king identified as Ahasuerus in the biblical beuk o Esther.