This is a bit of fun - a miscellaneous collection of trivia, jokes, anecdotes and other information for the classical Greece and Rome. It helps the reader get a feel for real life in the old world, not just the succession of battles and emperors of many histories.
Read Nov 2017 ( )

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. ( )