I love ancient Greek and Roman history, so when I came
across this book I just had to pick it up.
I needed to know what mellifying was, although now I feel that must have
heard this term before when I was reading about Alexander the Great. I swear I think school is exhausting me so
much that I’m getting dumber.
Simply put, this book details some of the scientific and
philosophical beliefs in the ancient western world. Of course at the time philosophy and science
were one and the same, so you really can’t talk about one without the
other. There are also stories just about
the superstitions and the just plain crazy shit that these people did or
claimed to have done.
Leon divides the book into geographical sections and
provides these stories and beliefs with much needed humor. This is a book that isn’t dry at all, unlike
so many other histories, and I blew right through it. It was an odd little book, but one that I
enjoyed quite a bit; I might even read it again.
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