Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-225) and index
Introduction: encountering Xerxes.- Staging Xerxes: Aeschylus and beyond.- Historiographical enquiry: the Herodotean Xerxes-narrative.- Xerxes in his own write? The Persian perspective.- Pride, panhellenism and propaganda: Xerxes in the fourth century bc.- The king at court: alternative (hi)stories of Xerxes.- The past as a paradigm: Xerxes in a world ruled by Rome.- Epilogue: re-imagining Xerxes
Xerxes I, King of Persia, 519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C.
Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. -- Historiography