If you've ever wondered what to do if attacked by barbarians or had questions about your legal options if you've been sentenced to being fed to the lions The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Rome (The Thrifty Guides)
might be a good reading choice for you.This is another entry in the Thrifty Guide time travel series. Each book in the series starts by introducing the reader to Time Corps and how their time travel agency works. While the agency exists in the future, the guides were lost in the past and a New York publisher chose to publish them in 2018 without permission. Turns out time travelers no longer have to worry about messing with the time line as the Time Patrol is hard at work restoring all the damage done by those on holidays.
This guide has eight chapters in addition to the introduction to time travel. The reader will find chapters titled Welcome to Rome, Roman Entertainment, Julius Caesar, The Roman Civil War, Quality Time with Cleopatra, Not Another Civil War, Antony and Cleopatra, and Rome's Top Five Craziest Emperor's.
As I mentioned with the American Revolution review you'll want to read the footnotes and read the helpful hints. Some are less helpful than others but they do provide some interesting details. This volume also includes people to lunch with and it's an interesting way to meet people of the time rather than traditional biographies. There are far fewer pranks in this book, but since this wasn't a favorite part of the series for me I wasn't disappointed.
The material in this book was deeper and more complicated than the previous book on the American Revolution. As a result there is slightly less silliness, but the writing still manages to engage and capture one's attention. I would recommend this for all readers interested in the topic, but specifically for students who are reluctant readers or those who are studying this time period but perhaps need more accessible material that still provides accurate information. That combination can be hard to find and I think this is a great resource for those students, especially.
It's so much fun to teach history to kids. Even a dark and difficult period can become interesting with this kind of approach.
ReplyDeleteI ordered this book from our library; I think it will make a super fun read aloud for us. Thanks for sharing at Love to Learn. Pinned.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds really interesting. I will have to add it to our 'to-read' list. I always love finding new history books to read.
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