As The Komnenoi World Turns, S3 E2

Back in Constantinople, calamity followed rebellion followed scandal. As Choniates tells us, the empress Euphrosyne became obsessed with fortune-telling and in her "mad delusions and excessive zeal" she had many statues beheaded and had the snout of a bronze boar that stood in the Hippodrome cut off. She even tried to have the back of the famous statue of Herakles lashed for some obscure occultish purpose.
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