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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
Herodotus is good company, a curious man who traveled widely and asked lots of questions 2500 years ago, wrote down what he knew and history was born. Facinating.
challenging
slow-paced
i struggled through it, but it has some very interesting and/or amusing tangents. unfortunately the tangents were (in the translation i read) broken up by pages and pages of quite boringly phrased history.
It was okay.
A lot of history.
Fairly dry history in fact.
Got some good thoughts from it, but all in all not too impressed.
2.5/5
A lot of history.
Fairly dry history in fact.
Got some good thoughts from it, but all in all not too impressed.
2.5/5
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
adventurous
lighthearted
slow-paced
An interesting book that shows how the ancient Greeks saw the world. It drags on at times and has some very boring asides, but also has a lot that is interesting and worth reading. Overall it’s interesting but a bit of a drag
informative
The translation is amazing, has no silly old-English phrases that make the text unreadable. It's written in plain modern English, easy to understand, easy to read, and that's amazing (I know, I looked through multiple issues of this book).
An essential reading to anyone who's into Iron age warfare between Greeks and Persians.
An essential reading to anyone who's into Iron age warfare between Greeks and Persians.
3/5 idk
did not read the whole thing, just excerpts for class
marking it read anyway! lol!
mostly boring but sometimes fun, kinda felt like when your friend from another school is telling you about school drama involving people you don’t know
did not read the whole thing, just excerpts for class
marking it read anyway! lol!
mostly boring but sometimes fun, kinda felt like when your friend from another school is telling you about school drama involving people you don’t know
surprisingly alright, despite Herodotus' rambles (to which he ends after two pages about someone's uncle's cousin, "but i digress. I must now get back to my story." I'd appreciate that, thanks Herodotus.)
another college read.
another college read.