Vashti - If Ahasuerus is Xerxes, Vashti would be Amestris, whom the Greeks regarded as the only legitimate wife of that monarch, and who was…

Vashti. —According to Gesenius, the name Vashti means beautiful. Among the Persians it was customary that one wife of the…

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women
&c.] For it was not customary with the Persians, nor other eastern …

As pride rose in Ahasuerus's heart with the grandeur of his kingdom, he made an extravagant feast. This was vainglory. A dinner of herbs with quiet…