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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在《历史》一书开头,希罗多德便开门见山地发表了那段传诸后世,并为后人不断释读的名言。 从这段话语中可以看出,希罗多德希望写就的这部“历史”记载的双方分别为希腊人和异邦人(或译作“蛮族”,主要指的是波斯人),所述内容是双方的丰功伟绩以及纷争原因。因此,...
评分希罗多德这本书曾遭到不够严谨,混入了许多不真实的奇闻怪谈的批评。但在我看来,这却恰恰是其一个优点,即事实丰富,颇具趣味。不像《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》虽然足够严肃,但读起来终归有些枯燥。 读古希腊的历史,不能孤立的来看它。而作为地中海文化圈的一个部分,古希...
评分 评分《历史》,又名《希腊波斯战争史》,是“公元前五世纪希腊历史学家希罗多德所撰述的记述公元前六至五世纪波斯帝国和希腊诸城邦之间战争的一部历史名著”。 “全书传统分为九卷”,“这种分法大概出自后来编订此书的亚历山大里亚学者之手”。 “第一卷在开宗明义之后,...
评分由于年代的问题,本书中许多翻译并不与现行大部分翻译统一。 举例来说,本书中提到西拉库赛,现行翻译一般是叙拉古;神庙戴尔波伊,现行翻译一般是特尔斐;波斯国王克谢尔克谢斯,现行翻译一般是薛西斯等等。 需要读者多加注意。
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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.
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评分希羅多德的《歷史》,記敘的是古希臘兩次重大戰爭中的前一次——希波戰爭,雖然希羅多德曾被《伯羅奔尼撒戰爭史》的作者修昔底德詬以文筆過於粗線條,但在當時希羅多德引用一些無法證實的傳說時已特意附注,給出類似“純屬個人觀點”的辯證分析,實屬難得,4顆星
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