Introduction

When he was growing up, Weirdo Yankovic wrote a song about going to the visit of Twineball. We can say with near historical certainty that within the last 14 months, Xerxes had gone through a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Greeks. And we can say with some degree of historical suspicion or strong suspicion that Xerxes drowned his sorrows after that defeat in a gigantic twisted, ugly, bizarre dalliance with another branch of his family tree.