The ancient Guiness records
― Extraordinary facts or deed were always fascinating.Today all of them are recorded in the Guinness book of records. The ancients had also an interests over such deeds and some of them mentioned by authors survived until today. ∙ Highest price for a book ∙ Aristotle bought Speusippos' books in exchange for three talents which corresponded to 77 kgs of silver. ∙ The most expensive soap ∙ Demetrius Poliorcetes spent 6.500 kgs of silver to buy soap for his mistresses [...].
