On hearing this, the ruler Cambyses, sentenced him to death through flaying, one of the most distressing ways of dying. Before his execution, Cambyses II asked Sisamnes to name his successor.

Flaying often functioned as an imaginative resource for medieval and early modern artists and writers, even though it seems to have been rarely practiced in reality. From images of Saint Bartholomew ...

Then these pious youths, on being apprehended together with their mother and their teacher, were constrained to set at nought the Law, and were subjected to unspeakable tortures: wrackings, the ...

Ankush Khardori is a senior writer for POLITICO Magazine and a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, where he specialized in financial fraud and white-collar crime. He has also ...

Titian also painted a satyr, Marsyas, in The Flaying of Marsyas, one of his series of late works based on Ovid's Metamorphosis and which is in the collection of The Met. Chris's satyr possesses a ...

The Ring of Fire is home to 75% of the world's volcanoes and 90% of its earthquakes. 2 min read The Ring of Fire is a roughly 25,000-mile chain of volcanoes and seismically active sites that ...

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After a four-week public flaying of COC’s mega-builder Dianne Van Hook, this scorched-earth board summarily fired the esteemed woman who built the place up from a dirt lot with four desolate ...

Get the inside scoop on UC admissions. Just how important are the Personal Insight Questions? Does UC really read every single application? Two admissions directors answer some common questions and ...

Then these pious youths, on being apprehended together with their mother and their teacher, were constrained to set at nought the Law, and were subjected to unspeakable tortures: wrackings, the ...