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A review by aorth
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński
3.0
I don't share Kapuściński's romantic fascination with the world or its history. I do love when I open a book and there's a map, but I'm not romantic. As such, his writing is a little bit too poetic for me. Also, I was somewhat let down in the beginning when I realized that this was not the author following in the footsteps of Herodotus. Later I was less disappointed, as he did end up traveling to some of the same places, for example North Africa, Iran, and Herodotus's birthplace in Turkey. I felt a bit of wanderlust when he was sailing to Bodrum and exploring the royal ruins in Persepolis.
The most exciting parts of the book for me were where the author highlights passages from Herodotus's The Histories. It is appalling how much torture, revenge, eye gouging, beheading, enslaving, castrating, invading, raping, sacrificing, etc that happened during the early classical antiquity. Some of the stories are just so crazy you have to wonder if they are true. I'm looking forward to reading more about classical Greece and Persia.
The most exciting parts of the book for me were where the author highlights passages from Herodotus's The Histories. It is appalling how much torture, revenge, eye gouging, beheading, enslaving, castrating, invading, raping, sacrificing, etc that happened during the early classical antiquity. Some of the stories are just so crazy you have to wonder if they are true. I'm looking forward to reading more about classical Greece and Persia.