- Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about the Greeks! It"s history, but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant, action-packed, fact-filled book including: - Why the ancient Greeks were mad about Olive oil - Who Pythagoras was - Why Alexander the Great named a city after his horse, Bucephalus, and - How the Greeks invented the first computer, vending machine and Death Ray.