Category Archives for Commentary
A question about dieties
Several times in Book Two Herodotus describes an Egyptian practice, but refuses to “name names”: p. 149 (132) “Once a year, at the festival on which Egyptians beat themselves in honour of that deity whom I must not name in this connexion…” p. 16… Continue reading
Was Pythagoras a “has bean” or not?
According to How & Wells, many of Herodotus’ claims in these sections of Egyptian customs must be taken with a grain of salt. For instance, his generalizations are simply that, generalizations and not representative of all Egyptians (especially th… Continue reading
Notes to start Herodotus
Dear all, I have attached some notes relating to our Introductory call and our book 1 discussion. Please look them over if you would like to get acquainted with what we have discussed so far on reading Herodotus and his basic aims. Andre Download … Continue reading
Member Bruce Upbin’s article on Bob Strassler
Folks, Bruce Upbin, senior editor at Forbes and longtime member of our reading group, just wrote and published an article on Bob Strassler – our favorite classicist and editor of one of the best editions of any of the classics I’ve ever seen. Bob … Continue reading
Great map of the history of near east, middle east
Folks, Great map – shows Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek/Macedonian, Roman….empires all the way up to today in the near/middle east. http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html We will start reading two plays and do a call in early Nov… Continue reading
Met Curator recommends…
Folks, In prepration for our upcoming in-person meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I have been designing a tour that takes us through the ancient near east and greek galleries. This tour is a “literary tour” that uses Homer, Herodotus and … Continue reading
Herodotus Books 2- 4. How’s it going?
Folks, Now that most of us are reading Books 2 – 4. How’s it going? What questions or comments do you have? Look forward to your thoughts – Phil Continue reading
How’s it going with Herodotus?
Folks, How’s it going with Herodotus? A number of you have made it through Book 1 and report you are in Book 2 (with only a few of you in Book 3 or beyond). Let us know how it’s going! Phil Continue reading
RO2 – Power and Madness, some thoughts
Dear Team I didn’t bring up this point at our last call because it felt like a digression and that as it is I talk a lot during our conference calls and tend to steer the discussion in some odd directions, so I was self censoring but…. the follo… Continue reading →
08. March 2007 by Arrian
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