Jerjes

Jerjes (Xerxes) was the king of Persia. His name means “governor of heroes”. After being crowned* one faced a revelión in Egypt successfully. In the Bible it is mentioned to Jerjes like Aüashverosh.

During their reign, many Samaritan ones requested aid to him with their accusations against the Jews. Jerjes also is identified with king Ahasuerus in the Biblical Ester Book. In this book Jerjes resigns to his woman because it in a celebration that the king had organized rejected to appear as Queen of the empire.
After giving warning to all the young people of the empire it chose to the bean* Esther so that outside his queen. Haman the Agagita, one of the ministers of the king, felt insulted by the uncle of Esther, and convinced to Ahasuerus to destroy all the Jews of the Persian empire, but Esther and his uncle obtained not outside that thus.

Persian king Jerjes seted out to finish with the revolution of Greek and the Asians and to conquer Greece to end the supports that received. In the Termopile's war, Jerjes didn't like that the Greeks fought and won all their wars, and already impatient, he sent to several emissaries noticing them that if did not give their arms, they would be killed.

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Wikipedia --> 23/05/07
300's critic --> 23/05/07