Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.'

The story of the great and mad Cambyses, King of Persia, told by part-historian, part-mythmaker Herodotus of Halicarnassus.

Herodotus (c.484-425 BCE). Herodotus's The Histories is also available in Penguin Classics.