Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants - Ryan, Garrett
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Most books on the Roman and Greek Empires deal with famous figures or events, but Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants focuses on things that seldom appear in history books: myths and magic, barbers and birth control, fine wine and the daily grind. This book, based on questions Roman historian Garrett Ryan, PhD gets most often on Quora and the popular Reddit forum, AskHistorians, reveals the nitty gritty details on how Romans and Greeks lived in a series of short and engaging essays, organized into six categories: Daily Life, Society, Beliefs, Sports and Leisure, and Legacies

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Most books on the Roman and Greek Empires deal with famous figures or events, but Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants focuses on things that seldom appear in history books: myths and magic, barbers and birth control, fine wine and the daily grind. This book, based on questions Roman historian Garrett Ryan, PhD gets most often on Quora and the popular Reddit forum, AskHistorians, reveals the nitty gritty details on how Romans and Greeks lived in a series of short and engaging essays, organized into six categories: Daily Life, Society, Beliefs, Sports and Leisure, and Legacies
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Autorenporträt
Garret Ryan, Ph.D, earned his PhD in Greek and Roman History from the University of Michigan, and has taught in the History and Classics Departments of three universities. The author of several articles in leading scholarly journals, he is one of the most-viewed authors -writing under the name toldinstone -on AskHistorians, the internet's premier public history forum on Reddit. On Quora, his answers have received more than 2,000,000 views in the past year. His own website, toldinstone.com, has an active following, as does his ongoing YouTube series "Questions about Ancient Greece and Rome (you were afraid to ask in school)."