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Stupid Ancient History (Volume 14) (Stupid History),Used
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Bestselling humorist Leland Gregory offers a blockbuster collection of more than 200 bizarre, weird, silly, shocking, and downright outrageous true stories about ancient Greek and Roman history.New York Times bestselling author Leland Gregory is one of Andrews McMeel Publishings most successful noncartoon humorists. Silly, shocking, weird, hilariously funnyand outrageously truethe short anecdotes inside his anthologies of human stupidity are culled from print, online, and broadcast media from all over the world. Inside Stupid Ancient History, Gregory chronicles Greek philosophers, Roman conquerors, and historic mythconceptions, including: To fight off Roman ships in 300 BC, Carthaginians catapulted live snakes at them. The Athenian lawmaker Draco died of suffocation when gifts of cloaks were showered upon him by grateful citizens at an Aegina theater in 620 BC. In ancient Rome, long before the advent of the Christian Bible, Roman men swore to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth by placing their right hand on their testicles. It is from this ritual that we derived the term testimony. Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus burned to the ground in 356 BC. The arsonist was executed; and to make sure his wish for everlasting fame wouldnt come true, it was ordered that his name be stricken from all records and never mentioned again. But people will talk. Despite all efforts, his name leaked, and Herostratus is remembered as one of the most notorious firebugs in history.
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