Stupid Ancient History

The quips in this book are fun and entertaining, but the author is inconsistent. Sometimes, we are led to believe that a source, like Heroditus' The Histories is basically an encyclopedia, and on the next page we are told that it is basically unbelievable. After about halfway through, these inconsistencies began to capture more of my attention than the historical anecdotes -very unfortunate.

I read the kindle version. The kindle format was lacking what I guess would be fanciful bits of artwork or page turns to separate short stories. This made the transitions less smooth than I imagine they were intended, but I don't know for sure.