Ἰστορίαι Book ¸ Kindle Edition ñ Herodotus

10 Comments on "Ἰστορίαι Book ¸ Kindle Edition ñ Herodotus"

• Ἰστορίαι Book ¸ Kindle Edition ñ Herodotus ἸστορίαιWhat I learned from this book in no particular order1 Ancient Greeks are uarrelsome and love to waste each other’s city states for the pettiest reasons 2 From all forms of government known to man democracy is the best Tyrants and oligarchs suck3 The Persian Empire is a mighty barbarian nation but being cowardly effeminate and slavish it is eventually defeated by the uarrelsome but brave and civilized Greeks4 Among the Greeks the Spartan

  ---

• Ἰστορίαι Book ¸ Kindle Edition ñ Herodotus ἸστορίαιWhat do Herodotus and Tristram Shandy have in common? Progress through digressionI suppose my first acuaintance with the work of Herodotus was through that technicolor cold war drama The 300 Spartans in which a rampantly heterosexual force of Spartans defends freedom liberty and all that good stuff from allegedly ferocious yet ineffective hordes of freedom hating Per

  ---

• Ἰστορίαι Book ¸ Kindle Edition ñ Herodotus ἸστορίαιἸστορίαι The Histories HerodotusThe Histories of Herodotus is the founding work of history in Western literature Written in 440 BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions politics geography and clashes of various cultures that were known in Western Asia Northern Africa and Greece at that time Although not a fully impartial record it remains one of the West's most important sources regarding these affairs Moreover it established the genre and study of history in the Western world The Histories also stands as one of the first accounts of the rise of the Persian Empire as well as the events and causes of the Greco Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city states in the 5th century BC تاریخ نخس

  ---

• Ἰστορίαι Book ¸ Kindle Edition ñ Herodotus ἸστορίαιHubris in History A Recurring Terror “The conversion of legend writing into the science of history was not native to the Greek mind it was a fifth century invention and Herodotus was the man who invented it” RG Collingwood The prime subject of The Histories is the twenty years 499 479 BCE of war between Greece and Persia for domination of the Greek world However he intersperses this main narrative with plenty of personal interest stories “wonders” about firsts and bests historical parallels and occasionally his own biased judgements but always making it clear that he is interested only in presenting a viewpoint — he leaves the act of judgement to the reader We can safely say that it was Herodotus who helped create the concept of the discipline of “history” in part by stressing and criticizing his sources and accepted traditions My job is to record what I have been told make of it what you will that is the dominant warning note wherever H�

  ---

• Ἰστορίαι Book ¸ Kindle Edition ñ Herodotus ἸστορίαιThe kids bought me this for Christmas and it is a thing of infinite beauty I’ve been meaning to read these histories for years and never uite got around to it I had never realised uite how remarkable this book would beThis version of the book is the third that I now own – I’ve also got a copy of the Penguin Classic

  ---

• Ἰστορίαι Book ¸ Kindle Edition ñ Herodotus ἸστορίαιI think I would like to invite my Goodreads friends to browse any Book you like then take heart to start with Book I as the inception of the whole inuiry unthinkable to those Greek scholars at that time but Herodotus could make it and you cannot help admiring him when you read his famous preamble Herodotus of Halicarnassus here displays his inuiry so that human achievements may not become forgotten in time and great and marvellous deeds some displayed by Greeks some by barbarians may not be

  ---

• Ἰστορίαι Book ¸ Kindle Edition ñ Herodotus ἸστορίαιIt wasn't just Vollmann's fourth reference to Herodotus in a span of 20 pages in Rising Up and Rising Down it was the reality and shame that I'm in my 40s and the most I know about the war between Persia and the Hellenic city states is what I learned from the movie 300 Thus The HistoriesFirst I can't imagine what it would have been like reading these nine books by Herodotus in any format other than this simply amazingly researched and presented volume The Landmar

  ---

• Ἰστορίαι Book ¸ Kindle Edition ñ Herodotus ἸστορίαιAccordingly the Psylli took counsel among themselves and by common consent made war upon the southwind so at least the Libyans say I do b

  ---

• Ἰστορίαι Book ¸ Kindle Edition ñ Herodotus ἸστορίαιOne of the surprising things about this book is that despite its antiuity the author’s personality comes through Of course I’m hearing his voice through translation but I couldn’t help but imagine that I was on the listening end of an extended conversation with the book’s narrator who had traveled widely met many people and read much The book’s narrative sounds almost conversational with numerous digressions and detours that indicate extensive knowledge of the background of the characters and incidents being described I almost feel like I’ve met the author who lived nearly 25 thousand years agoThis book is generally recognized as the founding work of history in Wester literature Published around 425 BC the year the author died it recounts the traditions politics geography and wars of that era The actual writing of the work had probably stretched over a number of prior years The work is divided into nine books beginning with founding myths and Trojan War and proceeding

  ---

• Ἰστορίαι Book ¸ Kindle Edition ñ Herodotus ἸστορίαιWhat I read Histories by HerodotusWhat I expected Thucydides PersiansWhat I got Mountable battle dolphinsThe complete discography of Kid RockEyewitness testimony that Ethiopians produce pitch black semen no homoOur flying snakes will block out the sunOn all levels except physical I am a Mede Whips the seaHerodotus can I borrow 100000 Persians? 1000000 Persians? What do you need 5000000 Persians for?The Virgin Greek pederasty the Chad Persian piss fetish

  ---