B.C. Esther was adopted by her uncle‚ Mordecai‚ after her parents passed away. Esther became Queen of Persia‚ which was the greatest empire in the world during her ruling. In 473 B.C. Esther saved the Jewish people from a massacre. King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) was married to Queen Vashti before he married Esther. Queen Vashti embarrassed her husband before the leaders of the government and Esther was chose to replace the
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Leonidas was the king of Sparta between 488BC and 480BC. The movie “300” narrates the story of Leonidas leading 300 Spartan “body guards” and fighting to death against the massive Persian army led by “God King” Xerxes in the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. Prior to the start of the war‚ Leonidas knew that his army was hugely outnumbered and knew with certainty that his move against the Persians was a suicide mission. His intention was to delay the fast approaching Persian army from reaching the
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“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars‚ pretending generally‚ if not always‚ that the good of the people was the object” – Abraham Lincoln. The Persian Wars were a series of destructive and malevolent battles which occurred in the time frame of 490B.C and 480 – 479B.C. The Greek victory over the Persians in the Persian Wars cannot be attributed to only one factor‚ more it was a commixture of factors. Such factors include unity‚ leadership‚ strategy‚ tactics and
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In Aeschylus’ tragedies The Persians and Agamemnon‚ the interactions between messengers sent forward by their army and the queens ruling the land in their king’s absence play a pivotal role in the plot structure of the ’return of the king’. The ’return of the king’ revolves around a chorus‚ anxiously hypothesizing about what could have possibly happened to their king‚ a queen awaiting her son or husband’s return‚ a messenger announcing both the king’s arrival and the outcome of the king’s conquests
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To her credit‚ she never explicitly asks the fate of Xerxes‚ rather she asks the fate of "the captains" (296) but the messenger knows what Atossa is really after: news of her son. The messenger immediately says after Atossa’s probing: "Xerxes himself lives to behold the light" (299). Hearing this‚ Atossa cries out: O for my palace you spoke a greater light‚ and after blackest night a whiter day
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An accuracy within the first movie 300 was near the beginning when you see the government official on a cliff with a baby inspecting it to decide if it will be discarded. The inaccuracy would be the way Xerxes is shown‚ in the movie he is bald‚ tall‚ and comes to the front lines. In real life he had a beard and was much shorter he also never came to the front line at the Battle of Thermopylae. An accuracy in the second movie would be when the Allied navy
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Xerxes watched what happened from a nearby hill‚ and saw how‚ at dawn‚ his ships were attacked on their flank. They were almost without a chance. We know that an Egyptian flotilla tried to block the Greek retreat to the north‚ but it was defeated or neutralized by the Corinthian ships. At nightfall‚ at least a third of the Persian ships was defeated. Persia had not improved its strategic position and Xerxes recalled his army‚ which had reached the Isthmus
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25000 to 10000. Greek phalanxes superior and win. Sends Pheidippides to run to Athens to tell victory so that Athens will not give up city-state to Persia . Pheidippides runs 26 miles to deliver message‚ dies at end. - Battle of Thermopylae : King xerxes
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unhappy parent of misfortune. Once in a blue moon it might bring us luck but more often than not it is fraught with dangerous consequences. The Persian monarch Xerxes‚ rashly enough‚ ordered an expedition to conquer Greece. With a wave of the hand he dismissed all pitfalls and dangers. When the trial of strength came the armies of Xerxes were dashed to smithereens and the crestfallen monarch escaped in a solitary boat‚ forlorn and humiliated. Those who act first think afterwards are bound to repent
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the Spartan hunchback‚ Ephialtes‚ betraying his King by going to the Persian “God-King” Xerxes out of revenge. When the Ephialtes asked Leonidas if he could fight‚ the hunchback was denied because he could not stand tall and hold up his shield. When the hunchback went to Xerxes‚ he was offered clothing‚ jewelry‚ women and sexual pleasure as long as the hunchback does one thing for the “God-King”‚ kneel. Xerxes says‚ “Cruel Leonidas demanded that you stand‚ I only require that you kneel.” The battle
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