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Strange But True: THE WEIRD HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROME: Gladiators, Mad Emperors, Sacred Chickens, Public Toilets, and Other Bizarre Stories from the Rom

Strange But True: THE WEIRD HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROME: Gladiators, Mad Emperors, Sacred Chickens, Public Toilets, and Other Bizarre Stories from the Rom

Wann, Guy
Press, Sparktrail

Paperback

Series: Sparktrail Strange But True, Book 26

Ancient RomeGeneral Military HistoryItalian History

ISBN13: 9798194893102
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Ancient Rome gave the world magnificent roads, powerful laws, soaring aqueducts-and emperors who argued with the sea, gladiators who became celebrities, sacred chickens employed as military advisers, and public toilets where privacy apparently went to die.

In Strange But True: The Weird History of Ancient Rome, the polished marble is pushed aside to reveal the noisy, crowded, funny, brutal, and frequently ridiculous civilization underneath. Meet abandoned twins raised by a she-wolf, rulers who turned government into personal theater, chariot racers who earned fortunes, doctors who prescribed cabbage and gladiator blood, soldiers who wrote home asking for socks, and ordinary Romans who filled their walls with campaign slogans, gossip, insults, and remarkably familiar complaints.

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