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A review by duffypratt
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
Way more enjoyable than I thought it was going to be, and much more readable. I don't know that there is much more I can say about it. The ancients strike me as an odd mixture of incredibly human and totally alien.
Reading has tempted me to pick up a more modern account of the period, perhaps Kagan's book on this war. But then, the thing I liked best in this book were the shorter asides that added flavor to the broader history, and my guess is that would be missing from a modern account. Maybe I'm wrong.
Reading has tempted me to pick up a more modern account of the period, perhaps Kagan's book on this war. But then, the thing I liked best in this book were the shorter asides that added flavor to the broader history, and my guess is that would be missing from a modern account. Maybe I'm wrong.