Xerxes' perversion ended in the most savage mutilation in history скачать в хорошем качестве

Xerxes' perversion ended in the most savage mutilation in history

Her breasts, her nose, her ears, her lips, everything cut off and thrown to the dogs while she was still alive. Her tongue torn out by the root. She was not the victim of a barbaric war nor the prisoner of a savage enemy. She was the victim of a king's lust and the revenge of a queen, the revenge of Amestris, wife of the King of Kings, Xerxes. But how could a domestic dispute escalate to such a level of savagery? How could a man's lust destroy his own family in the most brutal way imaginable? The story does not begin with blood, it begins with silence, the silence of a defeated king. Xerxes had returned from Greece. His armies, numbering in the millions, had been humiliated at Salamis and Plataea. The man who believed himself a god was now back in Susa, broken, bored, and dangerous. His power was absolute, but his ego was wounded. He needed to prove he could still take whatever he wanted, and he wanted something, or rather someone. It was not an anonymous concubine among the thousands filling the palace. It was another man's wife. Worse still, it was the wife of his own brother Masistes, a woman untouchable by blood and law. She was, according to reports, the most beautiful woman in the empire. And Xerxes watched her at banquets, in the palace corridors. His gaze fixed on her. Masistes, his brother, a loyal soldier, noticed nothing, or perhaps chose not to notice. Ignoring the king's gaze was a matter of survival. Desire turned to obsession. This was no longer politics, no longer military strategy, it was the primitive need of a predator.