A token of Sparta's submission to the will of Xerxes.
In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes sends his massive army to conquer Greece.
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.
Reaching the harbour, Xerxes ordered that a golden crown be presented to the captain for saving his life.
This may be true, but the anecdote looks suspiciously like Herodotus' s story of Ephialtes, who showed the Persian king Xerxes a road to circumvent Thermopylae in 480.
After his defeat at Plataea in 479 BC, Xerxes, king of Persia, was retreating from Greece when his ship, overloaded with Persian warriors, was caught in a heavy storm.
Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes, sealed the dispatches with the king's signet ring, and sent them by mounted couriers, who rode fast horses especially bred for the king.
