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Known as: Political
3 titles in the archive · first depicted 486 BCE
Lived519 BCE – 465 BCE
King of Persia who invaded Greece in 480 BCE, burned Athens and lost his fleet at Salamis.
Shelfmark Vita VIII
2 years of a 54 year life depicted onscreen
Distinct years the archive depicts, against Xerxes I’s lifetime (519 BCE – 465 BCE) — 3.7% of it.
8 years of cinema separate them. A series is sorted here by the first year of its release.
A series counts once, regardless of how many of its episodes feature them.
A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pick a tab to read one; they are in the order they are filed on the timeline. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.
Event
A decisive naval engagement in the straits of Attica where a smaller Greek force comprised of allied city-states under the leadership of the Athenian statesman, Themisocles, were able to defeat the larger Achaemenid Persian invasion force of Xerxes I, accordingly helping to turn the tide of the Greco-Persian Wars toward the Greeks' favor.
filed under 480 BCE
Runs throughGreco-Persian Wars
Event
A famed holding action and last stand at the pass of Thermopylae, where a small allied force of a few thousand Greeks, and famously 300 Spartans under King Leonidas of Sparta delayed the Persian advance of King Xerxes I during the Greco-Persian Wars.
2 titles of theirs · filed under 480 BCE
Runs throughGreco-Persian Wars2 titles
What the films portraying Xerxes I cost to make and took at the worldwide box office, as TMDB records them.
| Film | Budget | Box office |
|---|---|---|
| 300 | $65,000,000 | $456,082,343 |
| 300: Rise of an Empire | $110,000,000 | $337,580,051 |
| One Night With the King | $20,000,000 | $13,728,450 |
US dollars as TMDB records them, not adjusted for inflation. 3 films of the 3 portraying them carry either sum.