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.
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事物之间必有联系，是人类各种文明穷尽其自身一切可能预设的认识论前提，也是一种本体论承诺。而如何更容易更清晰地发现并厘清事物之间的联系，则决定了不同文明可能达到的高度与广度。也就是说，不同文明能够达到的层次，一方面依赖于其持续时间的长久，另一方面也仰仗于梳理...
評分我时常有一种时光倒错感，这种感觉在阅读历史书籍的时候犹为强烈。比如，我正在阅读远古时期的一场战场，我会感觉它就发生在不久以前，而我童年的一些经历却好象是发生在很久以前的事了。如果我们把一次次阅读也当成一场场梦，如果我们的梦不会醒来，我们是无法分清它和现实之...
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评分印象最深：Solon認為一個人死亡之前，不能夠說這個人幸福（blessed），如果他/她擁有財産，圓滿傢庭，隻能說明這個人lucky。隻有death纔能確定人是否blessed，而在此之前，自負地認為自己blessed，可能會有緻命後果。
评分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.
评分感謝我是個有耐心的人…
评分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。
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