He is the most well-known of all Persian kings
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Xerxes is framed through Persian family power, royal image, and the later biblical name Ahasuerus.
Xerxes comes into focus through the people and records clustered around his reign: his mother Tossa, whose presence grows in the Persepolis fortification texts after she becomes queen mother, and his one named consort, Amestris, whose elite family ties and children point to a…
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You get Xerxes through the powerful women around him: Tossa as queen mother, a named consort called a mestress, and the Hebrew Bible's Ahasuerus.
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