Xerxes and the Apadana

As Xerxes gets into his 40s, even from the scant historical evidence we have of what his reign was like in the four seventies, we can see that he's got a lot of pressures cooking during this decade. Darius the younger son of Amestris, the wife who had an axe to grind no pun intended would be probably a pretty functional young man by this point. And that's Darius his younger brother, Artaxerxes. It doesn't look like he'll get the throne, but he's going to factor prominently. He's promising as well.