Has index.

The past is full of people just like us, people who lived ordinary lives in extraordinary times. Spend some time with them and we might learn more about ourselves. So that's what this book is - a collection of some of the best stories from the ancient world, stories which are interesting, funny, sad or peculiar and especially stories which seem impossibly contemporary even though they're a couple of millenia old, like the one about Vedius Pollio, surely the world's first Bond villainches Myths are debunked - Julius Caesar's last words weren't 'Et tu, Brute?, gladiators didn't salute the emperor when they were about to die, and the Romans weren't chucking Christians to the lions every mealtime. Ancient history doesn't just belong in dusty classrooms and dog-eared textbooks, it belongs in our lives now. - Provided by the publisher