I didn't really like it.
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I didn't really like it.
I didn't really like it.
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any more soulless filters like this?
I just wish he stayed on topic. He starts discussing something interesting and drops it for something else. I liked Xenophon a lot more.
In my opinion all the random tangents just make it all the more fascinating.
They are good. But they simply don't go on for long enough. The bits on Egypt and the Scythians were good but a lot of it wasn't like that.
moron bugman gets filtered by the SOVL of the best book of all time, more news at 10
I liked herodotus a lot and thought xenophon was kinda lame.
I read Caesar before I read Xenophon. They write in a similar style but the skill of both in writing is blatantly obvious. So I kept comparing him to Caesar, in the fact Xenophon was nowhere near as good a writer as Caesar. I enjoyed Xenophon for his better narrative, especially the Thracians.
Bugman.
The book on Egypt was brutal
going in blind reading Herodotus was one of the most SOVL-ful experience i ever had with literature, literally make me feel like a kid
idk what to tell you Anon
unbelievably filtered
Who asked? This is a board for discussion of literature, not your moronic opinion on history. Take it to Goodreads you moronic homosexual.
>This is a board for discussion of literature
Yea and I'm discussing the fact I didn't like Herodotus.
Again, who asked? Why should we give a shit that you didn’t like it? What a novel and interesting take. Thank you for blessing us with your nuanced interpretation.
Wow, you need to take a chill pill buddy. This is a forum for literature discussion and if you don't like that you should probably leave
And you need to frick off. I’m here to discuss literature, not to see the catalogue clogged with your insipid commentary on an off-topic subject
Sucks to be you.
One of the best written works ever made and you can't even appreciate it.
Tell me something: do you enjoy reading those japanese comic books? I'll understand if that's the case.
>One of the best written works
I'm not arguing that it's poorly written. At least for prose. My problem is that he is the equivalent of a child with an attention deficit. It's just annoying. Same reason why his bits on the Persian kings, Scythians, Egyptians, and of course the final narrative on the Persian war were the best parts. Because he wrote a focused narrative or looked at a culture and region in detail. Xenophon may have been a poorer writer but his works are a whole lot more interesting than Herodotus on average. Thucydides was a far better writer of history than either of them
I HATE RIVERS
>Thucydides was a far better writer of history than either of them
2400 years later, and Thucydides is still the GOAT
Imagine getting filtered by Herodotus' "digressions" and not seeing how they tie in to his larger narrative. It's the best history book ever written. He covers an epic civilizational struggle and never loses focus.
>Herodotus' "digressions"
The majority of his work?
>and not seeing how they tie in to his larger narrative
Usually they don't.
>It's the best history book ever written.
Diodorus, Livy, Polybius etc