Tonight is purim, when we will read megillat ester. The Persian king Ahasuerus in the story is widely assumed to be Xerxes I, who ruled from 486 to 465 BCE. He was also, coincidentally, the Persian king who initiated the battle of Thermopylae, and therefore was featured in the movie 300, being playing by Rodrigo Santoro. Now take a look carefully at the picture to the right, because I’m totally making that my purim costume next year.

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