How on earth am I supposed to read this?
I'm very interested in his analysis of history and politics, but the parts documenting how some Greek commander went from point A to point B with so and so many helots and light infantry are an utter slog to read through.
Can I just skip them?
How on earth am I supposed to read this?
Ayden Carter
Asher Evans
>not following and memorizing every single troop movement for the entire war
disgusting
Juan Cook
Get the Landmark edition. It has maps.
Aaron Torres
>I'm interested in history and politics but not, like, numbers and stuff. More like, how did people feel.
kys
Jacob Roberts
Mine does have maps, but I don't see what this adds. I can now know that point A is so and so many miles east of point B?
The only value it has for a modern reader (save for a historian) is in his extremely lucid analysis, I would argue. If you're just looking to learn about the Peloponnesian war, I am sure there are better books than the primary sources.
Wyatt Taylor
>The only value it has for a modern reader (save for a historian) is in his extremely lucid analysis
retard
just stop reading it
gb2 harry potter
Matthew Ramirez
If none of those names, locations and events feel extremely evocative and meaningful to you, you should read more Greek literature.
Nolan Gray
Read this first for context
Ian Young
>the only value it has for a modern reader is his extremely lucid analysis
first of all, you're dead wrong. second, do you not think that perhaps all of those boring dates and numbers might be related to his "lucid analysis"?
Nathan Howard
This. Reading the iliad added weight to the locations in Herodotus
>tfw that lydian king died at Troy