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DZ Season 063 Part 12. 300 Spartans and All That - Xerxes and the Spies.
Xerxes the wise ruler, making intelligent decisions, is on show in this programme. Decisions of great insight, brilliance even.
In previous programmes we’ve seen examples of decisions by Xerxes of profound stupidity.
But right now, I have no trouble in calling Xerxes a smooth operator.
Tag words: Xerxes; Greeks; Persians; Thermopylae; Oracle at Delphi; Herodotus; The Histories; penteconters; John Marincola; Richard Nelson; Warfleets of Antiquity; Luke; Acts 27; Paul the Apostle; 2 Corinthians 11:25; Jefferson White; Evidence and Paul’s Journeys: An Historical Investigation into the Travels of the Apostle Paul; Suetonius; Emperor Claudius; Lucian; Euroclydon
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By Paul FordyceXerxes the wise ruler, making intelligent decisions, is on show in this programme. Decisions of great insight, brilliance even.
In previous programmes we’ve seen examples of decisions by Xerxes of profound stupidity.
But right now, I have no trouble in calling Xerxes a smooth operator.
Tag words: Xerxes; Greeks; Persians; Thermopylae; Oracle at Delphi; Herodotus; The Histories; penteconters; John Marincola; Richard Nelson; Warfleets of Antiquity; Luke; Acts 27; Paul the Apostle; 2 Corinthians 11:25; Jefferson White; Evidence and Paul’s Journeys: An Historical Investigation into the Travels of the Apostle Paul; Suetonius; Emperor Claudius; Lucian; Euroclydon