Ancient Obscenities: Or Things You Shouldn't Know About Mankind

Tidy, Bill; Bahn, Paul G.

ISBN 10: 1845883500 / ISBN 13: 9781845883508

Editore: Nonsuch Publishing, 1999

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• Titolo: Ancient Obscenities: Or Things You Shouldn't Know About Mankind
• Editore: Nonsuch Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1845883500
• ISBN 13: 9781845883508
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good Jacket
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • History

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Riassunto

With a unique blend of narrative, anecdote, and cartoon, this book reveals and revels in those aspects of the past that have been ignored, glossed over, or even suppressed&;the bawdy, the scatological, and the downright bizarre. Our ancestors were not always serious, fearful creatures. They were human like ourselves and shared our earthy sense of humor based on bodily functions, bawdiness, and slapstick. So it's time to take the fig leaf off the past and take a long hard look at the world that would have had the Victorians reaching for their smelling salts. So, if you want to know what your average Egyptian slave thought of Pharaoh or what a Roman legionary thought of his commander, you will find the answer here&;in hilarious graphic detail. It is a must-own for history lovers.

Informazioni sull?autore

Paul Bahn is the bestselling author of Bluff Your Way in Archaeology. Bill Tidy

a contributing cartoonist to three archaeological magazines: British Archaeology, Antiquity, and Archaeological Institute of America. He has a worldwide reputation as Britain's most versatile cartoonist.