Xerxes I of Persia
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xerxes the Great, also known as Xerxes I of Persia, (reigned 485-465 BC) was a Zoroastrian Persian Shahanshah (Emperor) of the Achaemenid Empire. Xerxes was the son of Darius the Great and his wife Atossa. He succeeded his father in 486 BC with a very smooth transition of power challenged by no subject nation ...