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Cover for Greeks
61 Ratings

4.6

Series

5 of 6

Duration
1H 46min
Language
English
Format
Category

Children

In Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders Greeks, Sir Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about the Greeks! It's history, but not as we know it!

Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant, action-packed, fact-filled book, including:

- Why the ancient Greeks were mad about olive oil

- Who Pythagoras was

- Why Alexander the Great named a city after his horse, Bucephalus, and

- How the Greeks invented the first computer, vending machine and death-ray

For more funny history facts discover Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders Egyptians.

© 2012 Macmillan Digital Audio (Audiobook): 9780230766426

Release date

Audiobook: August 30, 2012

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