Category Archives for Herodotus
Books 8 and 9 Herodotus – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for Herodotus Books 8 & 9 and our special guest scholar, Robert Strassler, editor of the forthcoming “Landmark Herodotus.” Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Herod… Continue reading
Questions for final Herodotus call – Monday, June 4
Folks, I look forward to our final call with our special guest Robert Strassler, editor of the forthcoming “Landmark Herodotus.” Strassler has spent many years developing this new edition – he commissioned a new translation, wrote more than 100 ma… Continue reading
Book 7 Herodotus – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for Herodotus Book 7. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Herodotus-May2007-Book7.mp3 Continue reading
Herodotus Book 7 Questions to ponder
I hope you are enjoying Book 7 as much as I am. I am sure that we will be referring to the current movie “300” at some point, but in addition I have put together some more historical questions for us to ponder for our next conference call on Monda… Continue reading
Book 6 Herodotus – audio recording
Folks, Here’s the audio recording for Herodotus Book 6. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Herodotus-April2007-Book6.mp3 Thanks, Phil Continue reading
Herodotus Book 6 questions
Hi everyone, I just wanted to remind you about our call coming up Monday April 23 for Herodotus Book 6. 8:00pm-9:30pm NYT (5pm PT, 7pm CT) 1 800 615 2900 11215# Also, I have come up with seven questions for us to chew on this week. Do any of them … Continue reading
Herodotus in the New York Times
Link to H. article in April 3rd, 2007 NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/science/03etruscan.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnl…/chvUUSlByPo7bO+gS9YA Might be of interest to the group. Current science backs H’s claim on the origin of Etruscans — archa… Continue reading
Herodotus Books 4 & 5 – audio recording
Folks, Here’s the audio recording for Herodotus Books 4 & 5. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download herodotusapril12007books45.mp3 Thanks, Phil Continue reading
Herodotus Books 4 & 5 – audio recording
Folks, Here’s the audio recording for Herodotus Books 4 & 5. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download herodotusapril12007books45.mp3 Thanks, Phil Continue reading
Homemade Herodotus
Homemade HerodotusBruce Upbin 01.29.07http://members.forbes.com/global/2007/0129/068.htmlIt took a feisty amateur to wrest the classics from the grip of professional historians. Robert B. Strassler calls himself a “scholar without credentials.” He… Continue reading →
05. June 2007 by readingodysseyauthor
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