Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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Esther 3:1
The name, Haman, is probably the same as the Classical Omanes, and in ancient Persian, "Umana" , an exact equivalent of the Greek "Eumenes." Hammedatha is perhaps the same as "Madata" or "Mahadata" , an old Persian name signifying "given by (or to) the moon."
The Agagite - The Jews generally understand by this expression "the descendant of Agag," the Amalekite monarch of 1 Sam. 15. Haman, however, by his own name, and the names of his sons Esther 9:7-9 and his father, would seem to have been a genuine Persian.
The Classical writers make no mention of Haman' s advancement; but their notices of the reign of Xerxes after 479 BC are exceedingly scanty.
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