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Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: Romans and Greeks

Sir Tony Robinson

Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: Romans and Greeks

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  • History Time - blasts from the past

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4 reviews

Two fact-filled books come together in Sir Tony Robinson’s Weird World of Wonders: Romans and Greeks.

Sir Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about the Greeks and Romans! It’s history, but not as we know it!

Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant, action-packed book, including:

- Why the ancient Greeks were mad about olive oil
- How to keep the gods happy
- Who Pythagoras was
- Why you should never ignore an omen
- Why Alexander the Great named a city after his horse, Bucephalus
- How to defeat an elephant-riding army, and
- How the Greeks invented the first computer, vending machine and laser death ray

For more ancient history facts discover Egyptians.

Reviews

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Funny facts

Anonymous 27.07.2022

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I really enjoyed the facts and that it was funny.

Lord Chester Shortbread 27.08.2020

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This is a really interesting non-fiction book about the Ancient Greeks.

Esquire Tyler Quagmire 22.08.2020

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This book is a must for people who love history.

Anonymous 08.07.2018