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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
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
World War II in Africa and Xerxes?
Rick Atkinson, author of “An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 19042-1943”, spends many pages at the beginning of the book making the point that this was one of the largest amphibious operations ever attempted. The combined American and Briti… Continue reading
Brainwashing?
As always I enjoyed our discussion yesterday evening…… but I wanted to say something about my use of the term “brainwashing” I think Sean’s frustrations with the text’s digressions are shared at times by all of us. My use of the term brainwash… 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
Gratias
Dear all, I just wanted to say once more that it has been a pleasure reading through Herodotus with you. Thank you for keeping me accountable with great questions, insights and comments. I know we learned a lot together through this experience. Th… Continue reading →
05. June 2007 by readingodysseyauthor
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