Xerxes
Family: Persia · Role: King · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 2
At Daskylion, Xerxes sent Artabazus to replace Megabates and carry a letter to Pausanias at Byzantium, ordering that it be sent as quickly as possible. In the letter, he proposed marrying Pausanias’s daughter and making Sparta and the rest of Hellas subject to him. Later, Artaxerxes, Xerxes’s son, came to the throne.
Relationship record
Life events
- Xerxes sent Artabazus to replace Megabates and carry a letter to Pausanias.(Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 2 · 📍 Daskylion)
Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 2
- with Pausanias (Pausanias proposed marrying Xerxes's daughter.) “I propose also, with your approval, to marry your daughter, and to make Sparta and the rest of Hellas subject to you.”
- with Artabazus (interaction) “He sent off Artabazus, son of Pharnaces, to the sea with orders to supersede Megabates, the previous governor in the satrapy of Daskylion”
Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 4
- child: Artaxerxes “King Artaxerxes, Xerxes’s son, who had just come to the throne.”
Book 4 · Chapter 13 · Part 2
- child: Artaxerxes “who heard there of the death of King Artaxerxes, son of Xerxes, which took place about that time, and so returned home.”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.