picture (Image in text) :Darius the Great and his crown prince Xerxes the Great
It is surprising that Xerxes was not so bad in the eyes of his Greek enemies. For example, Herodotus writes like this after reporting the Persians' great campaign against the Greeks: "Among these tens of thousands of people, there was no one who was superior to Xerxes in terms of beauty and shape, and because of that, he found the merit of such power"
The flat paintings of the emperor, for example, his monument in Naqsh Rostam near Persepolis, show such beauty and greatness.. There, Xerxes Shah is shown in the position of crown prince next to his father sitting on the throne, and like the flat image of the northern staircase of the Apadana of Persepolis, it has a royal glory, and it is unlikely that the reason for this is the flattery of the stonemason..
There is no doubt about the artistic understanding of Xerxes. Like the ancient Persians, he also had a high artistic sense. He in the year 481 During his campaign to Greece, in Lydia in Western Asia Minor, seeing a very beautiful plane tree, he ordered it to be removed and assigned one of the ten thousand Immortal Guard to guard it.. His father was still alive when Xerxes was thinking about the construction works of Susa and Persepolis with his inner passion and supervising them..
Xerxes writes in one of the petroglyphs like this:"Because Darius Shah {Buildings} Very magnificent construction…When I became king{Buildings} I made it very magnificent. I continued what my father did and added other things to it."
Now, surprisingly, we find out that the Gate of Nations in Persepolis is one of the works of Xerxes. Of course, like Susa, he had only finished the main gate of Persepolis, the main design of these buildings was Darius.. In the eyes of the Greeks, Xerxes had the same kingly mercy as his father Darius. He was willing to forgive defeated enemies.
If the Greeks were fantasists, he could even shed tears of sympathy for the impermanence of human monuments.…
Aeschylus, the contemporary and enemy of Xerxes in the battle with the Greeks, in his tragedy, the Iranians mentions Xerxes as very sad, timid and troubled, while earlier they had called him the passionate master of the men of Asia and considered him a man who is God.! But the introduction of the Shah of Iran in this way (God) It is the way of the Greeks. Iranians of the Achaemenid period never gave their kings the status of gods!
Source: The book of Dariush and the Iranians It was by Walter Hintz
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