Xerxes Revision

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  1. 1. The satrap of Bactria, who tried to revolt against Xerxes in 478 BCE.
  2. 6. The name of a woman who married King Ahasuerus and foiled a plot to have all Jewish subjects in the empire killed.
  3. 7. Achaemenid Empress and daughter of Cyrus the Great.
  4. 8. A leading Persian military commander during the Persian Wars with Greece. He died at Plataea.
  5. 9. A Greek tragedian whose work was concerned with the events of the Greek Wars.
  6. 10. The wife of Xerxes, who helped torture her sister in law and buried buried 14 children alive.
  7. 11. The firstborn son to Darius I.
  8. 17. Hystaspes or Guštāsp, was a Persian satrap of Bactria and was the father of Darius I.
  9. 20. A rock-cut necropolis northeast of Persepolis.
  10. 23. An evil spirit.
  11. 24. A narrow, natural strait and geographically significant waterway in Asia Minor.
  12. 25. A key site of Athens, burned down by Xerxes.
  13. 27. Author of 'The Greco-Persian Wars' (1970).
  14. 29. The author of 'The History of the Persian Empire' (2002).
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  1. 2. The successor to Xerxes.
  2. 3. The Athenian naval commander at the Battle of Salamis.
  3. 4. The author of 'Persica', who is the first Greek historian viewing the history of Persia from within.
  4. 5. The imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world by scholars from the Western world.
  5. 12. The alleged assassin of Xerxes and a prominent figure of the Achaemenid Empire. Also the name of Xerxes' uncle.
  6. 13. This satrapy revolted in Xerxes' fourth year.
  7. 14. The author of 'The political history of the Achaemenid Empire' (1989).
  8. 15. the most important and highly regarded bull deity of ancient Egypt.
  9. 16. A king of the Greek city-state of Sparta, who fought valiantly at Thermopylae.
  10. 17. Greek historian born in 484 BCE.
  11. 18. The author of 'Xerxes: A Persian Life' (2015).
  12. 19. The first major satrapy to revolt under Xerxes.
  13. 21. The author of 'The Persian Empire' (2007).
  14. 22. Physical representation of this god that was allegedly destroyed by Xerxes.
  15. 26. The author of 'The Rise and Fall of Athens' and 'Moralia'.
  16. 28. The Spartan navarch in charge of the Greek navy during the Battle of Artemesium.