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Xerxes I

Xerxes

Persian king who bridged the Hellespont and cut a canal through Mount Athos for his invasion of Greece (480 BC). Unnamed by Lucretius but unmistakable as "the one who paved a way over the great sea," a proverb of hubris and mortality.

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