Xerxes
Xerxes (the Greek form of the Persian Khshayarsluf) is the name of two Persian kings of the Achaemenid dynasty:Xerxes I is generally believed to have been the king described in the Book of Esther.
The name Xerxes was also the name of 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 the name of an opera by Handel
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