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This book is hilariously well-written by a scholar with a passion for the subject. Super accessible and clearly a labor of love.

romans be like: oh so murder is bad now? 🙄

Not to say that nonfiction books can’t contain humour, but there’s a difference between humour and mocking your own book topic.

“It’s all deeply uninteresting.”

Not a fan of the author telling me that the historical context of Roman society and politics is uninteresting in a book about Roman society and politics. I get that she’s trying to sound relatable, but I’d rather just she gives the info without snide comments.

The material is interesting, the writing style.. even more so. Took me a while to vibe with it because it's reads as so deeply unserious about pretty heavy subject matter. I feel like this book is for the true crime girlies because she writes so casually about horrific situations. Really reminds me of those sort of podcasts. I'm not loving it but the source material is interesting enough to keep reading for now.

So far- far too tongue in cheek.

The snark is BITING and I am HERE FOR IT

“Today’s lesson: Don’t fuck with the sacred chickens.”

I probably will not finish this lol, I can't stand it when books talk about their own subject matter like it's boring, or treat like the reader like they're stupid, don't involve me in your self-deprecation.

why’d they take all of the fucks out of the american version :(

Plz kocham ta autorkę za poczucie humoru

Chodzę od rana w usmiech ubrana
Taki mam mood
Kolejna zmiana ja to Genziara
Choć taka sama to mam nowy look

Rzymianie byli trochę dziwni

Chyba mi minął zastój

Ancient History is one of my favorite subjects but so rarely do the authors of my favorite books talk about how horrific it could be to be enslaved, a woman, or just simply poor. It’s hard to read through at times, even though the author uses humor when she can

The book started off strong, but has since become a little slow…

Oof. The writer clearly hates her subject

there is frankly nothing more irritating than reading something interesting and having the author go "sorry that part was so boring". either make it interesting (which you did!) or remove it from the book. this middle ground where you denigrate your own writing to undercut criticism is tedious and annoying

phone issues & just less time reading lately, have kept me from this audiobook & the Sedaris audiobook (& my physical books), but was enjoying more this today!

Where is Tiberius Gracchus when you need him

- in the 503 year period of Roman imperial Rollie in the west, 49% of emperors were murdered

- reigns of the first 12 emperors spanned only 123 years

Gladiator tournaments originated as being part of funerals

Term gladiator comes from gladius meaning short sword

Spartacus never actually fought in an arena as a gladiator

Divertidisimo

Quoting Gretchen Weiners while discussing the assassination of Julius Caesar? This might be my new favorite Roman history book.

Non-fiction-påska 2024

Dude, gladiators

Now this, this is fun.

“Love between parents and children was considered to be the most natural and d most basic love, the first law of nature..”

Making me cry 😭😭

Big fan of the paragraph describing how the Roman ppl were badgering their emperor to bring his daughter home after he’d exiled her