The decline and fall of practically everybody

Introduction / by the editor

Part 1. It seems there were two Egyptians. Cheops, or Khufu

Hatshepsut

Part 2. Ancient Greeks and worse. Pericles

Alexander the Great

Hannibal

Cleopatra

Nero

Part 3. Strange bedfellows. Attila the Hun

Charlemagne

Lady Godiva

Lucrezia Borgia

Philip the Sap

Part 4. A few greats. Louis XIV

Madame du Barry

Peter the Great

Catherine the Great

Frederick the Great

Part 5. Merrie England. William the Conqueror

Henry VIII

Elizabeth

George III

Part 6. Now we're getting somewhere. Leif the Lucky

Christopher Columbus

Montezuma

Captain John Smith

Miles Standish

Part 7. They all had their fun. Some royal pranks

Some royal stomachs