1. Xerxes I of Persia, son and successor of Darius I, attempted Plataea.2. Mardonius came back into favour under Darius'successor Xerxes I , Mardonius'cousin and brother-in-law. 3. Valerius writes another foreign story here of Xerxes I of Persia. 4. Nineteenth-century Bible commentaries generally identify Ahasuerus with Xerxes I of Persia. 5. Herodotus tells us that, circa 482 BC, Xerxes I ( the son of Greece. 6. Damasithymus was an ally of Xerxes I at the Second Persian invasion of Greece. 7. The work began in 515 BC, and his son, Xerxes I , completed it 30 years later. 8. This drama celebrated the defeat of Xerxes I at the Battle of Salamis four years earlier. 9. Herodotus in 7.185.1 lists them along with various other tribes in the Xerxes I 's European army. 10. The battle took place simultaneously with the more famous land battle at Persian Empire of Xerxes I .