Bought this book today, what am I in for?
Not real history.
Should have got Thucydides m8.
>>73484196
>Implying that anyone who doesn't have to read it for uni actually finishes these kind of books, instead of just reading the first couple of pages and posting a pic of it on the internet to profound how deep and intellectual they are.
wew I just started reading it.
Prepare for lots of fucking geography but pretty dank Persian and Egyptian tales of old.
Greco-Persian wars are very interesting as well as the rise of Cyrus.
>>73484305
>to profound
*profess
>>73484387
How does it feel to be the heirs of such a rich and beautiful history and yet your country nowadays is poor, downtrodden, and weak?
It's actually a fun jolly read, not like Thucydides
Half the Senators in Rome were Jews...
It's a nice read. Not exactly "history" as such. More like historical fiction. So many events are true, but the author used a lot of artistic license. The Battle of Thermopylae is really good. Anything about that gives me the fucking chills.
Thucydides, as others have said, is also very much worth a read.
>>73484305
Call no fag happy until he takes a dick up his ass.
>>73484305
not everyone is a dumbfuck like you
>>73484583
DELET THIS
>>73484305
>I'm stupid and have a short attention span, so everyone else must too! XD
>>73484196
There's some wild shit in there! My faves are the blemmyes or people with faces in the middle of their chests and no heads. Study that book seriously and you might become smart about historiography, representation, and cultural difference. Be a lazy fuck and just brag online and chances are you'll remain a massive faggot.
Try these too:
Jennifer T. Roberts, Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=51484B213921873F6E3333F62EAF1C30
Egbert J. Bakker, Hans van Wees, Irene J. F. de Jong, eds. Brill's companion to Herodotus
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=CD951466F53E35C458DA713EAED9EE68
Jessica Priestly, Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture: Literary Studies in the Reception of the Histories
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=30EF724265E096B80CA7677F6C053785
>>73484305
Fuck you
>>73484503
An excruciating heavy burden, especially thinking that the current cultural reins are divided between crony capitalism and cultural marxism that will eventually lead to enslavement or destruction of the human race.
dank memes
>>73484587
>>73484644
>>73484687
>>73485129
This is stereotypical SWPL behavior:
>Though SWPLs do not actually read to Herodotus, they like to believe that they are the type of people who would enjoy it.
>After having bought a Herodotus book, SWPLs will immediately begin telling everyone they know about it. This is because SWPLs see little to no value enjoying Herodotus without recognition from other SWPLs.
>>73484196
not very reliable but still very interesting
>>73486672
What do you think you're doing right now?
>>73484503
How does it feel to be 200yo embryo in world history?
>>73486672
Not everyone reads for enjoyment you know. Stick to your Stephen King garbage.
>>73484196
I didn't know sargon of assad wrote a book
>>73484262
Thucydides is definitely a good one.
>>73487127
If you find reading a chore, you should probably go back to playing your vidya games and masturbating to anime.
>>73487127
>Not everyone reads for enjoyment
Why the fuck not?
>>73487315
Never did I say reading is chore. I just said some read to learn, not for enjoyment.
>>73486672
Who are you quoting and why should I care about their opinion?
>>73487387
If you think learning is a chore, you're doing it wrong.
>>73484583
>>73487387
>let me just deny my own words and then claim to have said something completely different that's also retarded
What are you even doing nigger?
>>73487315
>>73487692
>misinterpreting his statement to e-stat how much you love reading and learning
For what purpose?
>not buying Germania by Publius Cornelius Tacitus
>>73484262
Thucydides is reasonably accurate but a little long winded and sometimes omits details where you want it and embellishes the obvious. Wish we had a Livy for the classical period desu
>>73484196
A long dry read.
>>73488353
Better than most Medieval texts like Marco Polo's The Travels or the Decameron
>>73484196
Buying a Penguin ...kekekekeke
>>73487127
>>73486827
It's all just vanity.
There aren't any profound, serious debates about Herodot on /pol/ ... if people would actually read and care about these things, there would be actual debates about it here.
It's like the male version of that meme with the girl who posts a picture of herself with a drink an a Kurt Vonnegut book on Facebook but then actually spends the whole evening looking at memes.
A lot of boring ass potentially ahistorical bullshit told in the form of anecdotes.
And then translated into English.
It's only interesting because it's the "first" written historical record.
If that gets your juices flowing, more power to you
