TRIBUTEBy PuerosPart â´ - ¸êäàåóèáé(Island of Chios, Ionia, Eastern Aegean Sea, summer 500 BC)‘We should not abandon our hearts to our woes,For we gain not a whit by our moping.’- Alcaeus of Mytilene (Fragment 335)Dios and Capros could both hear and see their respective parents shouting and screaming loudly as the uncovered ox-drawn wagon on which the boys were now resting, with one ankle apiece manacled to the wooden side of the cart, left their hometown’s main square. However, th...

ΦÓΡΟΣ(TRIBUTE)By PuerosPart γ΄ - ‘Έυνούχος’(Part 3 – Eunuch)(Island of Chios, Ionia, Eastern Aegean Sea, summer 500 BC)‘Character is a god over every man.’- Herakleitos of EphesusAspamites smilingly observed the sudden growth to horizontal hardness of Dios’ smooth slender cock and immediately realised that he could render the beautiful brave boy one further service before the child was flogged and castrated with the advent of dawn. The spasaka, or ‘eye of the king’, theref...

ΦÓΡΟΣ (TRIBUTE) By Pueros Part δ΄ - ‘Γύναικωνίτις’ (Part 4 - ‘Harem’) (Luristan, Iran, early autumn, 500 BC) ‘"Of what effect are righteousness and courage?" [Hesiod asked of Homer] "To advance the common good by private pains." [Homer replied]’ - Hesiod (‘Theogony’) Dios and Aspamites now formed part of a caravan that was much smaller than the earlier convoy, which had taken the tribute from Chios along the long Royal Road to Ecbatana. The 100 Chian children had been ...

ΦÓΡΟΣ (TRIBUTE) By Pueros Part ε΄ - Ττάσίς (Insurrection) (Royal park, Persepolis, Persia, late spring, 499 BC) ‘I will tell you how the case stands, Histiaeus: this shoe is of your stitching; Aristagoras has but put it on!’ - Artaphernes, satrap of Lydia, accusing Histiaeus of fermenting what would become known to posterity as the ‘Ionian Revolt’, according to Herodotus of Halicarnassus (‘Persian Wars’, 6.1) Dios was on the excellent grey pony given to him in Ephesus in the p...

What Really Happened To The Princes In The Tower, aka 'Princes' By: pueros Post Feedback | Printer Friendly Format [GAY] [DEATH] [PENECTOMY] [TESTICLES] [NULLIFICATION] [MINOR] The title describes it all !

White Arrow 1 By: pueros Post Feedback | Printer Friendly Format | Send Private Message [WARNING] [TESTICLES] [NULLIFICATION] [MINOR] A two-part story about an English boy who became an Indian brave.

White Arrow 2 (Conclusion) By: pueros Post Feedback | Printer Friendly Format | Send Private Message [WARNING] [BI] [PENECTOMY] [TESTICLES] [NULLIFICATION] [MINOR] Not for the squeamish but the description of Mohawk execution rituals are entirely factual.

Zheng He By: pueros Post Feedback | Printer Friendly Format | Send Private Message [NULLIFICATION] [MINOR] Fact or fiction?