The Comic History of Rome
Trying to combine instruction with amusement, the author of this curious book presents the events in the history of ancient Rome until the death of Caesar in a humorous way, with woodcuts that often look like comic caricatures. After a humorous narration of the foundation and the royal period of Rome, the author goes on through the multiple episodes and wars of the Republic. After a century and a half, the book has not lost anything of its amusing character and it remains as before an entertaining approach to Roman history. --Journal of Indo-European StudiesThe rolling narrative is written with fluency and flair and will provide both the beginner and the expert with an entertaining version of Republican history... John Leech's illustrations are a perfect compliment to Gilbert Abbott A. Beckett's text... While Gilbert Abbott A. Beckett's acerbic interpretations are meant to amuse, his narration of events is accurate and would provide the beginner with a very good idea of what happened, and of some major themes of Roman history... --Nicola Turner, University of Auckland, Purdentia