The Groovy Greeks And The Rotten Romans

Horrible Histories Collections

by Terry Deary

History with twice the nasty bits| Want to Why dedicated Greek doctors tasted their patients' ear wax? What Roman soldiers wore under their kilts? Who had the world's first flushing toilet? The Groovy Greeks is full of fab facts about the hip 'n' happenin' Greeks - who used to hang out over 2,000 years ago| Find out about horrible heroes, phoolish philosophers and suffering slaves. The Rotten Romans follows life for folk in Roman times, from Nasty Nero and other evil emperors to brave Brit Boudicca and the poor old peasants, who tried to send the Romans right back where they came from. Read on for curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests ...for your teacher| History has never been so horrible|

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Childrens, Humor, Historical, Education

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 19, 2003

About the author

A former actor, theatre-director and drama teacher, Deary says he began writing when he was 29. Most famously, he is one of the authors of the Horrible Histories series of books popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and humorous pictures and among adults for getting children interested in history. Books in the series have been widely translated into other languages and imitated.

A cartoon series has been made of the series of books and was shown on CiTV for a period in 2002.

The first series of a live-action comedy sketch show of the same name was shown on CBBC in 2009 and a second series is due.

Terry is also known widely throughout children and adult reading groups alike for his True Stories series (see below for series list).

He received an Honorary Doctorate of Education from the University of Sunderland in 2000. His numerous accolades also include the Blue Peter "Best Nonfiction Author of the Century" Award in the U.K.

-Wikipedia

Reviews

[Viktoria]

Fun and easy to read. Good, interesting structure of the facts. You can learn lot of facts about everyday life and that's what you mostly don't get to hear in school. This series can make you interested in learning more about history.

[A.]

I swear these books always teach me as much if not more as official adult history books lmao

[Catherine Woodman]

Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated books published in the UK by Scholastic. They are designed to get children interested in history by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant. They are exceptionally well loved by my history loving children

[Faizah Roslaini]

Some repetitions because it's a combined book. But a good read nonetheless, especially on contributions of both empires to our life up till today. Funny as ever.

[Jennifer]

Great book and probably of interest to kids. The jokes and cartoons were funny.
Lots of British humor. My version of this book also had quite a few typos.

[Crystal]

Probably more fun if you are a thirteen-year-old British boy, but I still learned something.

[Ilib4kids]

ILL Horrible Histories

[Joseph Leskey]

Well, if that wasn't enjoyable, I don't know what is. Nice and gruesome. And such excellent bad puns.

[Eule Luftschloss]

trigger warning
gore, torture, slavery

[Dhruv Sheth]

3.75 Stars