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In 486BC Xerxes succeeded his father Darius the Great as King of Persia.
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In 486BC Xerxes succeeded his father Darius the Great as King of Persia. His immediate intentions as King were quite clear as the Mediterranean world witnessed him put to rest rebellions in both Egypt and Babylon. It was only a matter of time before he would turn his attentions to Greece to avenge the burning of Sardis in 499BC which is father had attempted but failed to achieve a mere six years previous. Xerxes felt certain that he could learn from the mistakes of his father in 492 and 490BC and usurp power from the Greeks and thus increase the power and size of the Persian Empire. However, despite a considerable difference in man power between that of the Greeks and the Persians, Xerxes was soon to realise that due to clever military tactics, the development of the Athenian Navy, weaknesses in the Persian forces and Greek unity that avenging...
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