[Follow the FUN FACTS that relate to Race to Glory, chapter by chapter.]
Chapter 1, p. 6:[Senator Seneca said,] “Claudius Caesar hired me soon after he
married his niece Agrippina and adopted her child. Now where is that mischievous boy? Nero Claudius?” he called out, “Ne. . . Get down from there!” The defiant child who was attempting to climb up behind the statue, now stalked toward his tutor. “Sorry, Master Seneca, I was investigating. You always tell me to investigate, do you not?”
FUNFACT: The seated statue of Zeus, the king of the Greek Gods, rose 43 feet in height, almost touching the ceiling of the two-story Temple. The geographer Strabo commented, “It seems that if Zeus were to stand up, he would un-roof the temple.”
Barbara Youree 