Category Archives for Herodotus

Books 2 and 3 Landmark Herodotus – audio recording

Here’s the audio recording for Herodotus Books 2 and 3. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Herodotus-May2008-Books2and3.mp3 Continue reading

06. May 2008 by Arrian
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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

06. May 2008 by Arrian
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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

06. May 2008 by Arrian
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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

30. April 2008 by Arrian
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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

30. April 2008 by Arrian
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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

29. April 2008 by Arrian
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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

29. April 2008 by Arrian
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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

23. April 2008 by Arrian
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Books 2 & 3 Herodotus discussion questions

Greetings fellow Herodoteans!How is the reading coming along? I know Book 2 can be almost encyclopedic, but I find it fascinating time and again to share Herodotus’ wonder with a civilization like the Egyptians that has been around longer for Hero… Continue reading

22. April 2008 by Arrian
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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

08. April 2008 by Arrian
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