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. His personality, formalized as witness, reader, and commentator, is integrated into the report which attends on all the events and through which they live for future times.
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.
(on the back cover)
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It's like writing a review of the Bible, ridiculous and egotistic. But this translation and edition is pretty good, although not good enough. A truly useful and ideal translation should provide more background information and commentary, help reader to build up the concept and understanding of the world which Herodotus wanted to preserve.
評分價格跟企鵝差不多,裝幀好不少。
評分很好
評分David Grene的譯本,非常完美。除瞭譯文之外,這本書的排版印刷也很不錯,而且字體特彆好看,隻是希望能有更多的地圖。
評分David Grene的譯本,非常完美。除瞭譯文之外,這本書的排版印刷也很不錯,而且字體特彆好看,隻是希望能有更多的地圖。
The History 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載