[sharkjacobs]

I was always fascinated by the detail that Odysseus plows his own fields, and what that means about being King of an island in mythological Greece

[IAmBroom]

Brilliantly, the "Lion in Winter" opens with the King of England, the most powerful person in Europe at that time, rising from bed and breaking the ice atop his personal washbasin in his bedcroom.

Just in case you were thinking of Lerner & Loewe's England: this ain't that.