Customer Reviews
Modern antiquity: Variatio delectat - By: Herr Cooles, 02 Nov 2008 
Deary's hugely successful series has come with a classic topic: the Romans. This book is aimed at middle-school kidsin history or the classics - without making things dry, hard to understand & theoretical. The riddles, jokes & quizzes do NOT make the content less serious or falsify & distort it. It is just another way of presenting a civilization (and language) which is dead - & yet still so much alivein Western culture.
`The Ruthless Romans reveals the grim truth behind the greatest empire of all time.......' - By: Amazon Reviewer, 20 Mar 2007 
Want to know:-
which emperor enjoyed eating camel's heels?
how a cow on your roof could bring you bad luck?
the name of the Roman goddess of door hinges?
Read on for the gory details about the cruel Colosseum & the people & animals who were massacred here.
Run screaming from the reality of life as a Roman soldier & terrorize your teacher with our foul facts about the Romans.
History has never been so horrible!'
A witty, colourful cover opens to 127 pages, split over 13 chapters:-
Killer kings & the rotten republic
Superior superstitions & quaint customs
Gory gladiators
Ruthless Roman army
Evil enemies
Ruthless Roman quiz
Roman Empire timeline
Evil emperors
A few foul facts...
Marvellous medicine
Awful for animals
Painful plays
Cruel for criminals
with an introduction & an epilogue.
Written with the typical Deary humour & illustrations from Martin Brown throughout.
gruesome gladiators and more - By: James Gowman, 09 Dec 2006 It is packed with jokes,quizzes & information.
Oh yes & it's a bit bloodyin some places.(That is why i like it so much)
A SLIGHT DISSAPOINTMENT - By: , 09 Nov 2003 I was excited when the second horrible historys book on romans came out as I am a huge fan. As soon as it came through the letterbox, I started reading it. I must say, I was dissapointed. It didn't really contain much information I hadn't heard & the book itself was a bit too short. However, if you want to hear the grusome side of the romans, then this is the boook for you!
