Xerxes building program sources

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File previews. Xerxes was responsible for completing the monumental and building works of his father, Darius I at Persepolis. The author focuses mostly on recounting stories about the splendor of Persian royal gardens and the Persian custom of executing offenders against members of the royal family via inventive and cruel methods of torture. Chapter four turns to the religion of Xerxes and the Achaemenids , possibly the most complex and controversial topic of the study of the Achaemenid Empire.

These two chapters deal with a topic that was and will be the topic of numerous books and articles. It contains the narrative, events, texts and information associated with the subject, though the focal point is on Xerxes, his behavior and his actions.

This point of view has had an impact on how scholars have perceived Persepolis: i. Stoneman stresses the differences between Greek and Persian practices towards women of the elite classes and the contradictory information that one obtains from the classical texts.

Stoneman examines meticulously all available evidence presenting all the angles of this story. To this effect he uses a wide range of written sources classical tradition, Achaemenid etc. Stoneman follows the practice of presenting the evidence for each topic first and stating at the end of each chapter his own opinion on the matter, which is usually pro-Xerxes.

In his conclusion, Stoneman expands on two ideas mentioned in passing in the respective chapters. The present volume 2 will be a useful companion for everyone interested in the Greek-Persian wars, the civilizations of the Near East and especially those unfamiliar with the Achaemenid Empire.