Xerxes

Greek form of the Persian Khshayarsluf) is the name of two Persian kings of the Achaemenid dynasty:

Xerxes I, reigned 485-465 BC
Xerxes II, reigned 424 BC

Xerxes was also an Armenian king, killed about 212 BC by Antiochus III the Great and of a son of Mithradates the Great of Pontus.

Xerxes is also an opera by George Frideric Handel
Xerxes is also a character in System Shock 2

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