Mad,bad and just plain dangerous Romans
By John Townsend
In this book there are chapters filled with loads of facts! There is a joke at the end of some of the chapters. My favourite joke was "The emperor has eaten his wife. She was really wicked." "In that case I'm gladiator!"(glad-he-ate-her).
When doctors look after a wounded soldier, the Romans didn't know about germs and infection so they put maggots on the wound to clean it up and help it heal! Doctors also used leeches to numb the wound!
Roman soldiers captured people for slaves to help them with journeys and battles. Slaves did all the chores in the house and also worked on farms.They put slaves on sale on the streets. The slaves had very strict rules, which were:
Never argue with your owner : Beating and whipping!
Never try to run away : Death!
Never kill your owner : Death to all slaves!
There's also survival quizzes to see if you would be a good Roman or not. For the quiz there's points awarded. If you get over 150, Wow, you'd make a great Roman; 100-150 Fairly good; 80-100 Not bad; 50-80 Ooer-high risk; below 50 Aah! Give up now.
At the end of the book there's people talking in English and Latin. Here's the Latin with the English under it.
"Quam operor vos rate romanorum?"
"How would you rate the Romans, then?
"Funditus dementis, nocens quod periculosus!"
"Totally mad, bad and dangerous!"
The second emperor Tiberius got two of his guards to throw a slave off a cliff over 100,000m tall!
There are also Roman soaps which are funny. If gladiators died in the Colosseum not very bravely, slaves would come and take some blood from the gladiator who died!
John Townsend books are always full of information and fun to read, and so is this one. We are doing the Romans at school and I learned lots to tell my teacher. Thank you John for another great book. There are other books in this series too, about the Victorians and World War Two.
Tyler Peel
By John Townsend
In this book there are chapters filled with loads of facts! There is a joke at the end of some of the chapters. My favourite joke was "The emperor has eaten his wife. She was really wicked." "In that case I'm gladiator!"(glad-he-ate-her).
When doctors look after a wounded soldier, the Romans didn't know about germs and infection so they put maggots on the wound to clean it up and help it heal! Doctors also used leeches to numb the wound!
Roman soldiers captured people for slaves to help them with journeys and battles. Slaves did all the chores in the house and also worked on farms.They put slaves on sale on the streets. The slaves had very strict rules, which were:
Never argue with your owner : Beating and whipping!
Never try to run away : Death!
Never kill your owner : Death to all slaves!
There's also survival quizzes to see if you would be a good Roman or not. For the quiz there's points awarded. If you get over 150, Wow, you'd make a great Roman; 100-150 Fairly good; 80-100 Not bad; 50-80 Ooer-high risk; below 50 Aah! Give up now.
At the end of the book there's people talking in English and Latin. Here's the Latin with the English under it.
"Quam operor vos rate romanorum?"
"How would you rate the Romans, then?
"Funditus dementis, nocens quod periculosus!"
"Totally mad, bad and dangerous!"
The second emperor Tiberius got two of his guards to throw a slave off a cliff over 100,000m tall!
There are also Roman soaps which are funny. If gladiators died in the Colosseum not very bravely, slaves would come and take some blood from the gladiator who died!
John Townsend books are always full of information and fun to read, and so is this one. We are doing the Romans at school and I learned lots to tell my teacher. Thank you John for another great book. There are other books in this series too, about the Victorians and World War Two.
Tyler Peel
this is a very good book
ReplyDeleteWhat a marvellous review! I never knew the Romans were so crazy. Thanks for letting me know about this book Tyler.
ReplyDeleteFantastic. We are doing the Romans after Easter so we might get this book.
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