Tristan Hughes

We've covered a lot of his story, but is there anything you feel we should briefly mention before we wrap up?

Any other achievements that we should highlight?

Well, Lloyd, this has been such a fantastic chat.

You have, of course, written a book about the Persian Empire, which focuses also on Xerxes' life.

Well, as always, it's such a pleasure to have you on the podcast.

Thank you so much for coming back on.

Thanks so much, Tristan.

Bye.

Well, there you go.

That was the fantastic Reverend Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones returning to the show to talk through the story of Xerxes the Great, showing how there is so much more to that Persian king's story than just his ill-fated invasion of Greece.

If you want to learn more about that invasion, well, you can listen to Lloyd and Dr. Raoul Caninodike talking through that campaign in an episode that we did around this time last year.

We'll put a link to that

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