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The History (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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The History (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek
classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus,
the father of history.
Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen,
heard, and read, and seeking out the true causes and consequences
of the great deeds of the past. In his History, the war between the
Greeks and Persians, the origins of their enmity, and all the more
general features of the civilizations of the world of his day are
seen as a unity and expressed as the vision of one man who as a
child lived through the last of the great acts in this universal
drama.
In Grene's remarkable translation and commentary, we see the
historian as a storyteller, combining through his own narration the
skeletal historical facts and the imaginative reality toward which
his story reaches. Herodotus emerges in all his charm and
complexity as a writer and the first historian in the Western
tradition, perhaps unique in the way he has seen the interrelation
of fact and fantasy.
Reading Herodotus in English has never been so much fun. . . .
Herodotus crowds his fresco-like pages with all shades of humanity.
Whether Herodotus's view is 'tragic, ' mythical, or merely common
sense, it provided him with a moral salt with which the diversity
of mankind could be savored. And savor it we do in David Grene's
translation.--Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor
Grene's work is a monument to what translation intends, and to what
it is hungry to accomplish. . . . Herodotus gives more sheer
pleasure than almost any other writer.--Peter Levi, New York Times
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