Life in Ancient Rome Coloring Book (Dover Ancient History Coloring Books)

This coloring book is wonderful for older students, jammed with information on ancient life in Rome. Each page has more than a paragraph of info. Highly recommend

Any Ancient Rome enthusiast would love this coloring book young or old. It gives a caption at the bottom of each picture to show what is happening in each scene along with dates. Pictures are probably not easy for younger kids to color seeing as there's lots of detail.

good quality

The books are written on a easy to follow and understand way, my daughter loves to read and work in the projects.

My children love it - and even I am enjoying it. Well done.

Another educational double winner. This is another therapy winner and educational payoff as well. Don't miss this way to teach yourself things you have probably forgotten about Rome as well as teaching your younger ones and helping them learn to love history as well.

Wow, the detail, the accuracy, the range of topics. Adult work with colored pencils... good for history students to relax with.

Great detailed drawings and the bits of history make this a useful teaching tool with my kids.

Super Ausmalbuch, auch für Erwachsene. Die Motive sind sehr detailliert und orientieren sich direkt an echten Fundstücken und zeigen damit ein maximales Maß an historischer Korrektheit.

good fun

Very excited about this book. Good quality and look forward to many hours of colouring. Love ancient history.

was a great gift for a very special person .

Life in Ancient Rome works on two levels. It both entertains and educates. Firstly as a colouring book this is excellent and surprisingly cheap. Some details are small and require care and skill to shade. True you would be better with coloured pencils rather than paints or pens as both will bleed and actually go through the pages. The paper is not robust and the siren's call of the photocopier set to 131% beckons. Secondly if you are in Education then this is the book for you. Each page has a decent caption and explanation. The subjects selected are excellent and very detailed with a good selection of subject matter. That must have been a problem for the author John Green. The Ancient Roman World was so vast and covered such a long time it must have been very hard selecting which subjects to depict. I think he has done a brilliant job. True there are a couple of mistakes- thumbs down in the arena gladiator fights? And the scene of Capri with Tiberius watching criminals being forced over the top of the cliffs- true he was rumoured to have done this but I have been to his palace in Capri and the angles are wrong. Would Romans worshiping as Christians have worn Togas to do so? These are very minor niggles indeed and Green has selected well and depicted Roman life, shops living work and the like very well indeed. Now this is an excellent resource for the Teacher doing this topic. As a Primary Teacher and History Coordinator I was always after good resources. This book had to be the best of my purchases for myself. What the drawings do is convey what life looked like in Ancient Rome and they do this really well.. One idea I used to good effect was divide the class into groups and give them a blown up picture from the book. I asked the children to write on the sheet what they think the people could ‘hear’ in the picture. Then pass the sheet on to the next group and ask the groups to write what the people would be saying- speech bubbles and so on. Then smell, see and so on. Then we got each group to tell the others what had been written. This really got the concept of life in Ancient Rome across. If you are a parent who is studying the Ancient Rome then this is a really good purchase at a steal of a price. If you are a teacher then this could be the soundest investment you could make. John Green the Author has compiled a brilliant book. I would encourage you to take a look at John Green's other books here is a link, to a good one Medieval Jousts and Tournaments Medieval Jousts and Tournaments (Dover History Coloring Book) Get it while you can for pennies. Thanks for reading.