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Early scholars saw him as debauched and slothful, weak and degenerate; later scholars are more balanced, trying to judge him in the Persian context of his day. P.Green (The Greco-Persian Wars, Berkeley, 1996) sums up the position: “Our traditional picture of Xerxes is a caricature, put together...

“He is capable of large designs and generous impulses, and true to his word…he normally had a chivalry of magnamity that his father seems to have lacked. The admirable discipline of the Persian troops suggests that he inspired their reverence.” J. M. Cook

HERODOTUS- there “was not a man who, for stature and noble bearing, was more worthy than Xerxes to wield so vast a power.”

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:mad2: I really enjoyed english throughout school, but since going into yr11 now yr12 i really hate it, before you could be more creative and your own opinion counted. I dis-like how there is a certain structure, it just reminds me on a robot to be honest. School expects you to be a machine...