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.