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Facing each of the 119 pages of Karl Hude's Greek edition of Herodotus' Histories Book 1 (originally published by Oxford University Press in 1908) is a single page of corresponding vocabulary and intermediate level grammatical commentary. Once readers have memorized the core vocabulary list, they will be able to read the classical Greek and consult all relevant vocabulary and commentary without turning the page. ... Read more

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So readable and enjoyable
Having finished your basic Classical Greek grammar books, where should you turn to build your vocabulary and see those grammatical idioms in action? I have various BCP, Cambridge, Reading Greek and Loeb editions of assorted texts, but this really beats them hands down. It's such a pleasure to have the vocabulary just a glance away and the grammatical comments are most helpful. There are other features I really liked too. A separate vocabulary list of the words occuring more than 15 times with the number of times each appears also noted, current books for additional reading, downloadable flashcards and a pdf file available of the entire book. What a wonderful idea and how generous! Instead of covering your text in pencil or biro you can scribble on pages printed from your home PC.

The idea of "print-on-demand" books like this is new to me, but it seems to be working very well for everybody. It's explained in the preface. It means that a very nicely produced book is available for well below the price you would expect to pay for such a book. The down side is that there is apparently no independent editor, but the author is far more hands on and has more control over his product than traditional book publishing methods. Updates and corrections are available if needed. Although "printed-on-demand" the book arrived promptly. You'll need to order it from Amazon since you won't find it in bookshops at this time at any rate.
Buy this book! I bet you'll buy the rest of the series too, as I did.

Every student dreams of help like this
This is a wonderful book as it provides all the help you need to read the original greek. It is like having your own personal tutor at your side. I wish that every Greek text could be issued like this. Many congratulations and thanks to the author.
It is also a beautiful book to handle. Just what I wanted and needed! ... Read more

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Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned.

Plutarch wrote on many subjects. Most popular have always been the 46 Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one similar Roman), though the last four lives are single. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, soldiers and orators. Plutarch's many other varied extant works, about 60 in number, are known as Moralia or Moral Essays. They are of high literary value, besides being of great use to people interested in philosophy, ethics and religion.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Moralia is in fifteen volumes, volume XIII having two parts.

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Bryn Mawr Commentaries have been admired and used by Greek and Latin teachers at every level for twenty years. They provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and then provide the specific grammatical and lexical notes that a student requires to begin the task of interpretation. The volumes in the series are modestly priced and remain in print indefinitely. The text in each volume is in either the original Greek or Latin, with grammatical and lexical commentary in English. ... Read more

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It's all Greek to me
I was really looking forward to reading this but when I got it, I found that it was all in Greek (eventhought it said that it was all in english).

AN EXCELLENT COMMENTARY.
At last: a commentary that actually helps the student who wants to read Herodotus' Greek. It prints the O.C.T, which is what most students are asked to read, explains the main differences between Ionic and Attic, andthen proceeds to comment, clearly and unpretentiously, on all the usefullinguistic information, explaining the Ionic dialect, difficult verb forms,tricky constructions etc.Herodotus is such a fascinating author that allscholars have wanted to do over the centuries is debate his historicalmethods, view of the cosmos, and argue about whether he is reliable ormaking the whole thing up.This has meant that for 2500 years those thatreckon they can make their own mind up on those issues but would like somehelp just working through his Greek have been completely abandoned.Howand Wells, the only English commentary on the whole of Herodotus, is aclassic example of masses and masses of history but no linguisticinformation. But this commentary has filled the gap superbly. It hasidentified the real needs of the reader of Herodotus and has met themexactly. I found it incredibly useful when reading Herodotus 1 and I thinkothers will too. I hope something similar is on the way for books 2-9. ... Read more

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Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon PressNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Great, useful textbook
As a Classics major, I've seen my fair share of Greek texts.I've used many different editions.This edition of Herodotus' "Histories" is every helpful.The grammar guide, the notes and the dictionary are all well put together and make the translating process go much faster.

Good selection with excellent toolbox provided
A good selection of usually quite exciting stories - many of which are pure fiction rather than anything resembling modern history. Herodotos was a truly great storyteller.He is usually introduced in the curriculum only after Basic Greek and Attic Prose (Platon, Xenophon), but if your memory is slipping, like that of yours truly sure is, you will appreciate this Selection even more, for it comes with a very helpful Commentary, which details most syntactic phenomena, and even morphology, line for line, even such matter that is already taught in the Basic and Attic Greek Courses. So you get a good rehearsal of the basics as well as learning a new dialect of Classic Greek - i.e. Ionian.
Moreover, there is an very full alphabetical Vocabulary following the Commentary part, which includes not only words peculiar to Herodotos, but again, even basic Greek words you were supposed to remember from your Basic Course!
After having studied and learned Herodotos, you are equipped with a sufficient grasp of the Ionian Dialect to proceed to The Ultimate Experience - Homeros. His "epic dialect" is mostly Ionian in character.(and you will appreciate his simpler syntax...).
A small snag: the Greek text is printed in a very small font which is peculiar to British and American works on Greek, and may therefore be somewhat tiresome for the eye. The English text is more normal-sized, but, being a reprint of a much older original, is slightly faded. I would have loved it if the text had been reset anew with modern fonts.

Highly recommended both for the good choice of entertaining stories and for the excellent toolboxes provided as help for the eager learner of Classical Greek. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Great convenience
An ominous paragraph on one of the publisher-added front pages of this facsimile edition warns that the book is being republished because of its cultural value despite the possibility that some pages may have reproduced badly, even to the point of illegibility.That must be a series-wide warning.Fortunately, there were no such problems with the text used for this title.Occasionally it may be hard to make out the breathings/accents combinations (or is that my aging eyes?), but basically the entries are perfectly legible.

It's a great convenience having a lexicon limited to only the vocabulary used in Herodotus' Histories.It saves a great amount of time compared to flapping through LSJ.The translations seem to make the effort to reflect the root meanings of the words as well as providing a more supple English synonym.I appreciate that.

I purchased the hard-bound edition, thinking it would be more durable. No doubt.But it's a little stiff, and, frankly, this lexicon will never see as much use as the general lexicon.So I think the paper-bound edition is probably the better value.
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Norma Thompson not only provides an imaginative new interpretation of Herodotus` History but also shows how it makes a major contribution to political theory. She contends that Herodotus, the "father of history," recognized the central importance of compelling stories, whether factual or fanciful, because such stories become the "facts" of a people`s past and thereby the core of the political community. ... Read more

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Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present.

With a light step and graceful narrative, he gathers together over 2,500 years of the moments and decisions that have helped create Western identity. This unique approach is an incredible lens with which to view the past. Standing alone in its ambition, scale and fascination, Burrow's history of history is certain to stand the test of time. ... Read more

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I wish I had read this book in school!
I studied history at school, and then at university. Some periods I found fascinating; others left me completely cold (and bored). But it was also very frustrating, in my first year at uni, to be asked questions like "What do you think of Lewis Namier's work on 18th century politics?" or "Do you agree with the Whig interpretation of history?" - when I had never heard of either. Historiography is a more abstract subject than history itself; indeed, it is what we might nowadays call "metahistory" - the history of writing history. And that is what John Burrow has set out to explain in this excellent and (mostly) very readable book. I only wish it had existed, and someone had given it to me, in my last year at school!

If you read "A History of Histories" from cover to cover, you will probably learn a great deal (unless you are already an expert on the subject). Its subject matter can be divided into three main areas: an overview of great swathes of history itself; an account of many of the greatest historians since the time of the ancient Greeks; and a comparative study of the different ways of writing history, and the reasons for doing so. But these three topics are not treated consecutively, but intertwined together. For instance, in one of the earliest chapters we see how Thucydides - one of the greatest of historians - retold and analysed the events of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. For Thucydides, according to Burrow, "the chief quality to be sought in writing history is certainty"; yet he, like all the ancient historians, was perfectly happy to write down long speeches which were no doubt pieced together from memory or even largely made up.

Even though the systematic study of primary and secondary sources was not to become established practice until the 19th century, it has always been possible to adopt a more or less rigorous attitude to objective truth when writing history. Others, like many of the Roman historians - and especially the Christian writers who followed them - were more concerned to inculcate right thinking and virtuous behaviour, not scrupling to invent whatever episodes seemed most suitable for that purpose. And even in the 20th century, ideologically motivated scholars such as the Marxists were still using history to argue their own particular points of view.

For my money, the early parts of this book are the best. The sections on Greek and Roman historians are superb, and answered many longstanding questions for me. Then, with the advent of the Dark Ages, history dipped into a trough of religious admonition and fanciful invention - culminating in the entertainingly fictional chronicles of writers like Geoffrey of Monmouth. I found the author's account of Renaissance historiography (in the chapter "From Civic Chronicle to Humanist History") to be the most indigestible part of the book, although that may be due to the intrinsic difficulty of the subject. Inevitably, as more and more people started writing history in different ways and for different reasons, the story of historiography becomes progressively more complicated and opaque. Much to his credit, the author maintains an even pace and a consistent treatment right up to the 20th century.

perfect for those writing non-fiction or studying historiography
This book was suggested to me when I took a historiography class...it is a VERY thorough compendium of the various 'schools of thought' on the study and writing of history, as both an art and a science. Not for the unwashed masses....it's extremely in-depth and better suited for academics, students, researchers/writers or serious history geeks (like me).It is chock-full of fascinating insights for history lovers.

A rare book.
A rare book because it more than rewards the effort of reading. Like all great teachers, Burrow's affection for his subject and its practitioners shines through. His prose can be a little scholarly at times (terms such as "prolix" and "antinomian" can make even a fairly literate reader feel excluded) but that's just nit-picking. Also, the book is a history of *western* histories - not surprising given the author's background; you can only cast your net so wide. It is a breathtaking achievement - an easy, engaging read that makes you want to learn more.

An eccentric smorgasbord of delights
A History of Histories is an idiosyncratic work filled with a kaleidoscope of insights that derive from the author's broad education and lifetime of reading.At his best, Burrow seems like an animated tour guide pointing us to histories that we have never read and never will read: "Bet you've not thought about William Robertson.Well, let me tell you what's important about his History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V (1769).And then Carlyle--how about his peculiar and evocative prose style?"

What one should not expect of Burrow is a systematic study of great historians or western historiography.Everyone can choose his own favorite examples of imbalance.Ancient Greek historians get more space than the entire twentieth century.Geoffrey of Monmouth, the egregious medieval mythmaker, gets five and a half pages to Leopold von Ranke's three at best.Among Americans, William Hickling Prescott gets eight pages, Charles Beard a sentence and a half.

I also think Burrow has slighted the influence of the religion of the Bible in the development of western historiography.He postpones consideration of the Book itself until after all the ancients, although anyone guessing at the dates of composition for what Herbert Butterfield calls the "Court History of David" (I & II Samuel) would probably place it several centuries before Herodotus and would also probably, like Butterfield, credit it with "an amazing impartiality and independence."Then too, much of the praise bestowed on Enlightenment historians should, in my opinion, be attributed to the outworking of the Reformation.Likewise, nineteenth-century historicists reflect the soft glow of German pietism at their backs.

In the end, A History of Histories is still the finest piece of historigraphical literature written for the educated general reader in our generation.It's an eccentric smorgasbord of delights.If there are too many kinds of artichokes, there is still plenty of steak on the table.

Impressive
A History of Histories is an ambitious book that attempts to show the developments in the writing of history over the span of around 2,500 years. The author examines who some of these major historians were, what topics they considered worthy of recording, what their strengths and weaknesses were ,and lastly, how history became professionalized.

I found the first section of Burrow's book easier to follow since I have read some of the works of the ancient Greek and Roman historians detailed here. I wasn't as familiar with the works of the later historians, though I have heard of several of these figures. This part was a slower read as my knowledge of these historians and their works was not as strong. The author has an impressive knowledge of so many of these figures and their works.

The author does a good job in tracing the developments in the writing of history and who some of the representative historians from each major period were. Obviously it is also important to know a little about the world around them at their time and how that influenced their writings, which the author also touches on. Epics, chronicles, annals, universal histories, socioeconomic, cultural, political/diplomatic histories and the likes are all included in this broad overview. Indeed, the evolution in the writing of history becomes clear in this book. The author aptly concludes by stating this is a story that doesn't end. An erudite, but challenging read in places, at least for me. ... Read more

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Essential passages from the works of four "fathers of history"—Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Polybius's Histories. ... Read more

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Leaves you wanting for more
Dont be confused by the relatively low ranking, this book is good. The only trouble is that it only contains fragments of the greatest historians ever. Though this is what the editor set out to do, you will feel cheated by not having the whole story to read.If all you want is a glimpse at what made the ancient historians so special, this is the book for you.However, chances are that you will want the complete story as well, something this collection cant offer. ... Read more

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"Book I" of the Histories provides a particularly good illustration of the discursiveness and diversity of Herodotus’ materials and of the ingenuity with which he develops his narrative and welds it into an artistic whole. Here he deals first with the distant mythological past and then in greater detail with the more recent history of Greek relations with the Near East, in an attempt to explain the origin of the quarrels between east and west which formed the background to the Persian Wars.
This edition, formerly published by Cambridge University Press in their Pitt Press Series (1909, reissued 1927) contains a serviceable introduction, text and careful annotation on matters of language and content. There is also a very useful explanatory index of historical and geographical names. ... Read more

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A clear, readable text, but it has no introduction to Ionic
HERODOTUS: Book I is a Bristol Classical Press reprint of a 1909 Cambridge University Press reader giving the original Classical Greek text of the first book of the "History" of Herodotus of Hellicarnassus.

The book contains an introduction, note on the manuscript history (up to 1909 of course), notes to help the student decipher trickier phrases of the Greek, and a historical and geographical index. The text itself is printed in a supremely readable typeface (not always guaranteed with BCP readers). I was disappointed to find, however, that the reader does not include any information how Herodotus' faux-Ionic dialect diverges from the standard Attic. Considering that Herodotus is traditionally the first Ionic text students encounter, the book would have been all the more useful had it contained a least a short summary of Ionic peculiarities.

This is the best reader I have seen for beginning the "History", and it certainly goes recommended. However, it will be necessary to obtain an introduction to Ionic forms in order to really understand Herodotus. ... Read more

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First published in 1889, this edition of the sixth book of Herodotos by E. S. Shuckburgh has been a long-established classic. The original Greek text is provided with an introduction, exhaustive explanatory notes, an index of historical and geographic references and illustrative maps. This book will be an excellent resource for students and amateur readers of Greek. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1906Original Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell ... Read more

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This Halcyon Classics ebook contains both volumes of Herodotus of Halicarnassus' HISTORIES, his inquiries into the Greco-Persian Wars which occurred in 490 and 480-479 BC.Aside from the causes of the wars, Herodotus also discusses the peoples and lands known to the Greeks, often with a fanciful flair.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus lived in the 5th century BC (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC) and is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture. He was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed narrative.

Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.

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