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Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines

Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines

by Garrett Ryan
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 03/10/2023
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Did the ancient Greeks and Romans have conspiracy theories? Did they come close to an industrial revolution? Did they drink beer?


In a series of fast-paced essays, Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines answers 40 questions that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has been asked in the classroom and through his popular YouTube channel ToldinStone. As in Dr. Ryan's previous book - Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants - the emphasis is on the fascinating details of daily life in the classical world.


Discover the answers to:


Did the ancient Greeks and Romans have tattoos?


Did they practice Buddhism?


Did they know when the Pyramids were built?


Did a tsunami inspire the Story of Atlantis?


How deadly was the eruption that destroyed Pompeii?


What was it like to live through the fall of the Roman Empire?


Why are ancient cities buried?


What happened to the treasures of the Roman emperors?


How much was lost when the Library of Alexandria burned?

ISBN:
9781633888944
9781633888944
Category:
Ancient history: to c 500 CE
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
03-10-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Globe Pequot
Garrett Ryan

Garret Ryan, Ph.D, earned his PhD in Greek and Roman History from the University of Michigan, and has taught in the History and Classics Departments of three universities. The author of several articles in leading scholarly journals, he is one of the most-viewed authors -writing under the name toldinstone -on AskHistorians, the internet's premier public history forum on Reddit. On Quora, his answers have received more than 2,000,000 views in the past year. His own website, toldinstone.com, has an active following, as does his ongoing YouTube series "Questions about Ancient Greece and Rome (you were afraid to ask in school)."

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