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File Size: 779 KB

Print Length: 145 pages

Publisher: OUP Oxford; 1 edition (June 23, 2011)

Publication Date: June 23, 2011

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0199575991

ISBN-13: 978-0199575992

ASIN: B005LNKIF8

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This is a highly readable, judicious treatment of Herodotus. The author emphasizes Herodotus as a liminal figure, appearing at the transitionary stage between lyric epic, and works of prose; between a mainly oral culture, and that of a more literal mindset; between East and West; between folklore and hard history. In the face of charges against Herodotus that he doesn't merit the honor of being called a historian, she promotes the idea that Herodotus was the inventor of the "docudrama"....a final product that, even if embellished with all sorts of folktale and legends, does faithfully present the history of its main topic...the Persian Wars. With regard to that endeavor, she argues, correctly in my opinion, that Herodotus undertook painstaking research, and all the while exhibited the required skepticism of the true historian. The book is very well written, and I enjoyed the author's enthusiasm for her subject. Like Herodotus himself, there is nothing "dry" in her own prose or presentation. On a final note, one of my favorite modern day histories is that on the American Civil War, by Shelby Foote. Like Herodotus' Histories, his own history is painstakingly researched, but also reads like a great story book. For that reason, I was able to engage with his work more than any other history I have read. To present the facts is one thing, but to present it in an engaging form that will keep the reader as interested in the last page, as in the first page, takes the art of history onto an higher plane.

A very good short overview of the author, the Histories, and the circumstances in which it was written. Cites current day fiction and non-fiction that is based on the Histories, proving that it is still a wellspring of inspiration.

Turns out that, despite the difficulty of working through translators, Herodotus did a pretty damn fair job of getting the message right. God, the Greeks were great!! We ignore them at our peril.

I'm becoming quite attached to this series of brief overviews (100-120 pages) of important topics in Western culture, from Roman Britain and racism to Mormonism and medical ethics. There are more than three hundred now, many of them the work of recognized experts, and of the dozen or so I've read, only one has failed to impress me.Herodotus, often called the "Father of History," is near and dear to my heart. When I first began buying "serious" books in about 8th Grade, I quickly discovered Modern Library's inexpensive editions of the great classics. And one of my first purchases was The Persian Wars. I was already a budding historian and I spent many fascinated hours exploring the ancient world through Herodotus's eyes -- he loved to leaven his narrative with folklore and what we would call ethnography -- and then working through his detailed account of the defeat of the invading Persians by the enormously outnumbered Greeks. If they hadn't managed it, all of history for ever after would be completely different -- and the Greeks knew it, too. Their amazing victory was an absorbing topic for them; how had they ever managed it?Roberts, a specialist in war in the classical world and in Herodotus and Thucydides -- the other "Father of History," but not nearly so much fun as Herodotus -- does a very good job in the limited space available to her. She lays out the key features of Herodotus's world, and of what "history" meant to the Greeks. She divides the anthropology from the military history and compares his methods in pursuing both -- most of which were original with him, and all of which we now take for granted as being the "only" way to do history. She includes an excellent chapter on the place of women in that world, too -- Herodotus being virtually the only writer of that time who even recognized their existence as a force in society and politics. And she replies forcefully to the canards that have been around for twenty-four centuries, that he was only a storyteller -- the "Father of Lies." As with all the titles in this series, there's a good selected bibliography at the end. A highly recommended and easily consumed volume for anyone who thinks they need to learn more about the ancient world.

The noted classicist Jennifer T. Roberts provides here exactly what the title says -- a very short introduction to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. The book is clear, direct, and a pleasure to read. It covers the little we know about Herodotus' life, the writing and influence of his HISTORIES, and various central themes, such as the place of women in Herodotus' writing and in history generally (especially enlightening and useful), the patterns of storytelling in his great book, and Herodotus' pioneering study of ethnography. Strongly recommended as a reading before you tackle the HISTORIES, or excellent reading on its own.

A friend of mine had this on her coffee table and I read parts of it. It's fine for what it is, but the original Herodotus is better. I recommend the Landmark Herodotus. The Landmark series of books greatly aid the non-specialist to read the great works of antiquity.

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