The great history of Rome from a different perspective. The protagonists, events and anecdotes that shaped the most exciting metropolis of all time. From the dangerous inhabitants of its sewers to the crows that saved the empire.
That wasn't in my History of Rome book is an entertaining, informative and rigorous text that rescues the lesser-known episodes of the greatest empire in history. A work that collects the most fascinating anecdotes about the most powerful civilization of Antiquity. Did you know that a fly had a funeral worthy of an emperor? That the first escrache in history was carried out by Roman women? That husbands kissed their wives to find out if they had ingested alcohol or that some geese prevented an enemy invasion in the capital of the Republic?... All this, and much more, is what they never taught us: the most fascinating, extravagant and fun Rome.
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