Show 58 Kings Of Kings Iii

“Peter Green's book discusses the historical reputation of Xerxes, portraying him as a misunderstood figure amidst Greek propaganda.”

“A.T. Olmsted wrote a history of the Persians that also addresses the character of Xerxes as a misunderstood figure.”

“Remember, it's Plutarch 450 years later or thereabouts, who says that the response that Leonidas, king of the Spartans, remember, they always have two of them.”

“The excerpt discusses the historical accounts of Herodotus regarding the Battle of Plataea and the interactions between the Spartans and Persians.”

“The excerpt discusses the history of Persia as presented by Tseus, highlighting the author's perspective on Persian wealth and culture.”

“Thucydides is referenced as a historian who wrote about the Greeks, providing relevant facts about Persia in his accounts.”

“Will Durant, who of course, love, but writing in 1935 when there was a different view of these things, kept the same sort of an idea going in an extremely satisfying from a storyteller and old-time historian standpoint.”

“Compare that to something like Pierre Brion's giant tome on Persia, where so much of it, especially in the period we're coming up to is comparing this ancient author to this ancient author and basically finding problems with both of what they say.”

“Historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, who's the one sort of putting this Tisius translation that I have together, he writes a very good defense of the idea of harem intrigues that sort of gives a pretty darn good historical justification.”