User blog comment:Tesla Man/Rise of the TDBU: Alexander the Great versus Xerxes/@comment-4661256-20120324010403/@comment-2006360-20120324133323

Either way, if the fight wasn't going Xerxes' way, he had archers to take down the lion/wolf/whatever. And the Persian kings realized rather early the concept of staying in the middle of the army and not personally fighting, simply being there to raise moral with the royal presence. And Xerxes' killing of a lion/wolf/whatever with his bare hands at age 12 is extremely unlikely.