Synopsis
History with the nasty bits left in! 'The Groovy Greeks' is full of fab facts about the hip 'n' happenin' Greeks, who hung out over 2000 years ago. Find out about horrible heroes, savage Spartan soldiers, phoolish philosophers and suffering slaves. Want to know why some groovy Greek girls ran about naked pretending to be bears, who had the world's first flushing toilet, and why dedicated doctors tasted their patients' ear wax? Read on for some amazing information on awful ancient food, groovy Greek Olympic games and the gruesome god who ate his own children. History has never been so horrible!
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Apparently the Greeks (we are talking about the Ancient variety) were a rather groovy bunch. The boys didn't start school until they were seven and girls didn't have to go at all. Greek children invented all manner of cool games just for something to do, and the grown-ups invented the Olympic Games and made the men run naked.
As Terry Deary points out, though, in his Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks, things were not always quite as jolly and some of the more disturbing facts unearthed in this funny and clever alternative to the history book are actually quite, well, horrible.
Illustrated by the talented Martin Brown, Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks adds a certain edge to the study of Ancient Greece by getting down to the nitty-gritty of Greek life and letting rip with the kind of nasty, revolting facts that any kids would kill to get their hands on.
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