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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Classical Compendium: A Miscellany of Scandalous Gossip, Bawdy Jokes, Peculiar Facts, and Bad Behavior from the Ancient Greeks and Romansdi Philip Matyszak
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is an author to watch. His Athens in 5 Drachma a Day is pretty good; Rome in 5 Denari a day was excellent and so is The Classical Compendium. It's basically a hodgepodge of trivia about the life and people of classical Rome and Greece, including bits of graffiti, ancient jokes, lines of poetry and snippets of letters and repartee that make the ancients seem refreshingly real. I now want to seek out further reading about this. If you're interested in classical history, you'll love this book. If you're not interested in classical history, this book will make you interested. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"The compendium includes humorous quips by the emperor Augustus and wry observations by the philosopher Socrates. There are stories of ghastly crimes, incredible journeys and some bizarre military mishaps, such as when a Macedonian army rushed to storm the walls of a Greek city, only to find that their ladders were six feet short. There are also dozens of lists, including Romans who lived to be 100 and odd deities like Sterculinus, the god of manure spreading." --Book Jacket. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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