2019-04-17
I really enjoyed Terry Jones’ books on mediaeval life – but his attempt to cover ancient history in this book is awful.
The premise is great – to show the “barbarian” point of view of the Roman Empire. But in practice this is just an hysterical rant about how evil and immoral the Romans were, because they killed people.
If that’s news to you, then you may learn something from this book. But if you’re familiar with Roman history to any degree then the tabloid style of this book is grating.
What’s worse is that Jones’ goes out of how way to “prove” how evil the Roman were by using the least reliable sources and misrepresenting others, the latter of which I found unforgivable.
Rating: 1/5