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The 23 pages that link to Xerxes I, each with the reason it gives.

• Achaemenid EmpireBroader topic: His reign brought the empire into its best-known conflict with the Greek city-states.

• HerodotusRelated: Herodotus gives Xerxes a central role in the Histories’ account of the second invasion.

• Greco-Persian WarsRelated: His invasion brought the largest Persian campaign against mainland Greece.

• Battle of SalamisRelated: He watched the battle from shore as the fleet he assembled was defeated.

• Persian EmpireBroader topic: His reign brought the empire into its most famous confrontation with Greek city-states.

• ThemistoclesRelated: Themistocles’s strategy was directed against Xerxes’s invasion fleet.

• PersepolisRelated: He added major structures and inscriptions to Persepolis.

• Battle of PlataeaRelated: His invasion created the campaign that ended with the defeat of his army at Plataea.

• DardanellesRelated: He ordered a bridge of boats across the Hellespont during his invasion of Greece.

• Battle of MycaleRelated: His invasion left Persian forces and strategic interests exposed in the Aegean.

• Battle of ThermopylaeRelated: His army confronted the Greek defensive force at Thermopylae.

• Second Persian invasion of GreeceBroader topic: He directed the campaign and personally entered Greece with the invading force.

• The PersiansRelated: His failed invasion and return from Salamis drive the play’s central lament.

• Cambyses IICompared with: Unlike Cambyses, Xerxes inherited the throne without a succession crisis after his father Darius.

• HistoriesRelated: Herodotus portrays his decisions and character as central to the invasion narrative.

• Twenty-seventh Dynasty of EgyptBroader topic: His reign included the revolt that challenged Persian authority in Egypt.

• Artemisia I of CariaRelated: Artemisia commanded ships in Xerxes’ fleet and advised him during the Greek campaign.

• Artaxerxes IRelated: Artaxerxes succeeded Xerxes after his assassination.

• Darius the GreatRelated: Xerxes inherited Darius’s empire and continued the war against Greece that Darius had begun.

• Battle of ArtemisiumRelated: His invasion sent the Persian fleet into the Aegean and toward Artemisium.

• Leonidas ICompared with: He commanded the invading empire against the Greek force Leonidas led.

• First Persian invasion of GreeceNarrower topic: He led the later, much larger Persian invasion, often contrasted with his father’s failed campaign.

• Salamis IslandRelated: His fleet was defeated in the straits around Salamis.