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Xerxes had spent years planning his invasion of Greece. It was to be his 'divine punishment' for his father Darius' crushing defeat at Marathon in 490 BC. Now, a decade later, he had spared no ...

By night he sent a messenger to the Persian king, Xerxes, informing him that the Greeks intended to flee. Unless he acted now, Xerxes would lose the opportunity to defeat the Greeks in one fell swoop.

Reared in Georgia and now settled in North Carolina, Jake Xerxes Fussellhas established himself as a devoted listener and contemplative interpreter of a vast array of so-called folk songs ...