The Landmark HERODOTUS (& Swords!)
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- An informal discussion of The Landmark Herodotus, along with some supplementary reading, as well as showing a few swords from my collection. This video is purely for fun! #BookTube
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I love that you often get the urge to swing around a sword 🗡. This is the greatest video to ever appear on RUclips. Herodotus! Bravo!
You lie, good sir, but you lie magnificently!
Really interesting discussion - thanks for this. It's incredible how influential Herodotus is on modern historiography.
Thank you!
Anyone who talks about the Landmark Histories is getting a sub from me lol. Also pretty cool to have a sword collection as well. Now you just need a Dory to add to your collection so you could "take the city by the spear" as they used to say in Herodotus' day haha.
Yes, a Dory would be a fantastic addition. Thank you for the sub!
Read a Penguin Classics edition many years ago, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt. Enjoyed it immensely, even though I was very young at the time and read mostly fiction. Maybe it's time for a re-read, perhaps this new edition.
Great video, btw. Loved the part with the swords, too, as I am also an afficionado.
I strongly recommend the Landmark Edition! ⚔️
Found your channel looking for reviews of this book and wow, you have such great and thoughtful videos. Cheers from Brazil!
Thank you! You’re very kind.
These Landmark editions are great. I’m getting Thucydides now.
The swords are beautiful.
For a moment there I feared you were going to throw a sword to the annoying bird!
I think it was a cardinal. I wonder if it made a nest nearby. 🤷🏻♂️
I so need to delve into his works.
I'm currently reading Tom Holland's translation. The prose is very readable, but I suspect it would be a lot easier to follow the action with some maps in the text. (In Tom Holland's version, the maps are all relegated to the appendix.) As you say, this book is probably worth re-reading at some point, and if I do re-read it, I would like to get the Landmark edition
The maps throughout and having footnotes instead of endnotes helped immensely. I can’t speak on which translation is better but I really enjoyed how accessible the Landmark edition is.
Great book and great video!!
Fantastic Vin and an impressive collection 👍 I'm guessing the neighbours are used to the sight of a burly bearded man wielding a sword in the garden 😂
Thanks, Mark! I’m sure the neighbors have had many conversations about us!
Do you have a copy of Richard Burton's "Book of the Sword"(1884) ?
I do have a copy, and I've read through some of it. I don't believe Burton is considered a reliable source, but it's a fun book to leaf through.
No Diodorus or Pausanias on the ancient historians :/
They’re hardly mentioned in that book, but the same author devotes a chapter to Diodorus in his Readings in the Classical Historians.
Have your happened to read the landmark Xenophon?
Not yet, but I coincidentally am starting The Landmark Thucydides today. I’m reading the ancient historians in chronological order; Xenophon will be later this year.