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Title: The History: Herodotus by Herodotus, David Grene ISBN: 0-226-32772-8 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: January, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Try another translation
Comment: Herodotus is great. Don't look to him for accurate facts and figures, which a lot of people expect out of a history these days, because I doubt he was truly concerned with how many Persians there were exactly but rather with illustrating a point about the nature of the Persian regime. So when you run across the footnotes poking fun at him for his "inaccuracies," "mistakes," etc, just skip over them as it's really not relevant. Grene's translation is better than I could do yet, but I'm sure there are better ones out there closer to the original in spirit. I haven't read any others though, so I may be wrong.
Rating: 5
Summary: Meeting David Grene!
Comment: I had the honor of meeting Professor Grene in his office at the University of Chicago. I was like a boy in a candy store. After spending about 15 minutes with this man, I could see how he was able to take this ancient work and bring it to the a level that made it very interesting reading. Regardless of what his critics may say, Professor Grene has brought us a historical work translated in such a way that will continue to attract new students of Ancient History. I continue to re-read his book not only for its content but also for the chance to see his autograph at the beginning.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great history in a so-so translation
Comment: I give Herodotus five stars, but Grene would get less for his translation. As one reviewer has already stated, Grene's attempt to put this massive work into modern language has some jarring effects. I can't remember any other historical work that actually uses the F word. It reduces the importance of this book, which is the first significant historical work ever written.
The History is an encyclopedic account of the known world in the 5th century before Christ (or Common Era for you secularists). The reader not only gets a detailed account of the hostilities between Greek and Persian, but also is introduced to in-depth accounts of the various peoples and tribes that inhabit the Near East and Mediterranean region. Drawbacks to Herodotus as a historian is his tendency to exaggerate figures, such as claiming that the Persian forces invading Greece numbered in the millions (at a time when armies rarely numbered over 100,000). Herodotus also has a tendency to tell a story and situation and then say something like, "But I won't go into the reasons for that happening." This makes modern historians cringe! But this is also an example of modern historians trying to instill their views back into history. Let's be glad Herodotus did what he did. A must for ANY student of history.
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Title: The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives by Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert ISBN: 0140441026 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1960 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Oresteia (PENGUIN CLASSICS) by Aeschylus, Robert Fagles, W. B. Stanford ISBN: 0140443339 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1984 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Three Theban Plays, The by Sophocles, Robert Fagles, Bernard MacGregor Walke Knox ISBN: 0140444254 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Iliad by Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox, Bernard MacGregor Walke Knox ISBN: 0140275363 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Basic Works of Aristotle by Richard McKeon, C.D.C. Reeve, Aristotle ISBN: 0375757996 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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