The emperor Justinian watches the sex show of the future empress Theodora. A Spanish adventurer infects an unknown Indian girl he raped with the unknown illness of decay. Her teeth fall out within a week. Metropolitan Germanos of Demetriada, predecessor of Christodoulos, blesses the first rally of fanatics in Volos.

The emperor of Morocco, Mulai Ismail, hurls his prime minister against a wall until his bones are shattered. The Spartan Pausanias compares an extravagant dinner of the defeated Persians with the terrible black broth of the victors.

Adolf Hitler rages over the surrender of 240,000 "traitor" soldiers at Stalingrad. He had ordered them to fall to a man, to preserve his honor. The Chinese empress Cixi is annoyed when her army is crushed by the Japanese. She had spent the military budget of the country to build her summer residence.

Athenian Alcibiades buys a dog at an astronomical price and then mutilates it to impress the voters. Murderers, madmen, and whores at the helm of human populations. Shining and horrific drops in an ocean of madness called Greek and world history.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]