User blog comment:Tesla Man/Rise of the TDBU: Alexander the Great versus Xerxes/@comment-4661256-20120324010403/@comment-4328703-20120324124801

but i think Wg is talking about the report of how Xerxes wrestled a lion to the ground at age 12. Now, im not to say whether this is true or not, but this easily resembles Herakles' battle with the Nemeon Lion, so Persian traders could have easily picked up the story in greece, and brought it over to Persia, and thus, The Xerxes story.