However, his fleet received a crushing blow at Salamis the same year.
After bringing Egypt under control, he prepared for an invasion of Greece by constructing a bridge of boats across the Hellespont and cutting a canal through the isthmus of Athos. Setting out from Sardis, he marched through Thrace and Macedonia and, despite the bravery of Leonidas and his 300 Spartans, overthrew the Lacedaemonians at Thermopylae. He then occupied and pillaged Athens. However, his fleet received a crushing blow at Salamis the same year. FTP, identify this Persian king called Ahasuerus in the biblical Book of Esther.
After bringing Egypt under control, he prepared for an invasion of Greece by constructing a bridge of boats across the Hellespont and cutting a canal through the isthmus of Athos.
{Xerxes} I (Accept Ahasuerus on early buzz)