Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask

Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask

By Peter Jones (2015)

From the Trojan War through to the rise of the Roman empire, Peter Jones tells the epic story of ancient Greece in this entertaining and illuminating follow-up to Veni, Vidi, Vici.

Fact of the Day

In 1794, women in a village on the Loire responded to a revolutionary talk on divinity by giving the speaker a mass moonie.

Quote of the Day

"They have done for me at last, Hardy. "

~ Nelson, at the Battle of Trafalgar

On This Day

1184 BCE The traditional date for the fall of Troy, when the besieged city was eventually broken by the Greeks.

1558 Sixteen-year-old Mary Queen of Scots married the fourteen-year-ols Dauphin of France, Francis. The marriage didn't last long: Francis died just two years later from an ear condition, although the cause of it has never been confirmed.

1731 Daniel Defoe, writer, spy and merchant died, probably while in hiding from his creditors (it is said he owed £17,000 after a souring of business relationships with France).

1915 The Armenian Genocide started, when the Ottoman government arrested and deported around 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders. By its cessation in 1923, about 1.5 million Armenians are thought to have died.

1916 At midday, the Easter Rising started. It was the attempt by a group of Irish republicans to establish a free Irish state.