Category Archives for Commentary
Herodotus turns up in the most unlikely of places…
So I am reading an advance copy of David Carr’s memoir “Night of the Gun,” where he details his many years as a junkie, and Herodotus turns up as the father of not just history, but alcoholism: “Booze has a nice, fat track record, dating back to s… Continue reading
Personal Names?
I was joking at the beginning of the call yesterday that I’m adopting Megabyzos as a nickname since it sounds cool. I was wondering if there was a standard convention for how people were given names during this time. Can Polykrates, Megabyzos, Her… Continue reading
A comparison of Edward Curtis and Herodotus
I apologize in advance if this a somewhat oblique and tangential point, but I’ve really been taken by the literary/imagined aspects of the Histories like the story about the two children who the Egyptians test to determine which civilization came … Continue reading
The Portable Landmark Herodotus?
I would be interested in an audio recording of Herodotus to help me “read” while I am driving to and from work!Andre 🙂 Continue reading
Re: Useful suggestions, distilled from “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
Below are reading guidelines culled from the classic “How to Read a Book by” Mortimer Adler. This book was recommended to us by Phil Terry when we began our journey with Herodotus. Since I commute four hours a day, it has been convenient for me to… Continue reading
The Landmark Herodotus Reviewed in the 5/15 NYRB
Fellow Readers, Our text is reviewed in the current issue of the New York Review of Books, by Peter Green, a classicist. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21370 I found his comments about Herodotus’ unprecedented attention to culture and anthropolog… Continue reading
A Brush With Herodotus
Team, I have to share this story with you. I was on a business trip this weekend that had me driving on the dark back roads in Maryland to get from Frederick to Dulles airport at 5am. The rental car I was driving had satellite radio so it had a lo… Continue reading
Herodotus in the New Yorker
This week’s issue of The New Yorker has a review of Herodotus: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/04/28/080428crbo_books_mendelsohn Very interesting, but be warned – there are spoilers!-Dan Dan Blank Continue reading
oracles ancient and modern
What I was trying to say last night when noise took over is that we have a long list of modern oracles–not that their message is (necessarily) mystical but because, like ancient oracles, they have been assigned the task of acquainting us with the… Continue reading
Herodotus Online Link
I know some people find it a pain to cart that large physical version of the book around on planes etc. (I will confess to being one). As such I wanted to share that I found an easy way to download it to your notebook (albeit the Rawlinson transla… Continue reading →
27. May 2008 by Arrian
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