Xerxes Persian Symbols Charm

Xerxes I came to power in the Achaemenid Empire in 486 BC.
The image of this king we know from reconstructions from relief in the harem of Persepolis. Xerxes I set himself the most important task: having succeeded his father Darius on the throne, consolidate the territorial gains and continue administrative reforms. Presented by Greek sources as a cruel despot, without the slightest imagination, who suffered military defeats in battles in Greece at sea at Salamis (480 BC) and on land at Plataea (479 BC), as an absurd copy of his father.'