Alphabe Thursday X is for Xerxes

When I began my studies for degree in Classics someone recommended that I should read Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield to prepare for Homer and his Odyssey and Iliad. I did read it; but I don’t now whether or not it worked; but at least it did arm me with a good example of an X is for …  I was thinking that X is for X!!

Then to find Edward Lear had the same idea was a bonus … he surely is the expert!!