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A review by jplayjames
Xerxes Invades Greece by Aubrey de Sélincourt, John M. Marincola, Herodotus
1.0
Pros:
* Starts with an X so you can read it for alphabet reading challenges
* You don't need to read the rest of Herodotus' Histories
* Probably of interest to historiographers or whatever
* I'm sure he was trying his best
Cons:
* Absolutely gd everything else. I don't care that it's a classic and historically significant, I care that it sucks. Shut up nerds.
* That one bit where H spends forever wildly estimating the number of "men" (both combatants and noncombatants) in Xerxes' army to the nearest 10 when it is more than 5 million, and then goes "also eunuchs, women, and animals, but who counts those sorts of things?"
* The experience of reading the thing
Conclusion:
I'm glad I don't live in 400BCE when all there was to read was this trash. More evidence, if such was needed, that life sucked before the advent of the Animorphs franchise.
* Starts with an X so you can read it for alphabet reading challenges
* You don't need to read the rest of Herodotus' Histories
* Probably of interest to historiographers or whatever
* I'm sure he was trying his best
Cons:
* Absolutely gd everything else. I don't care that it's a classic and historically significant, I care that it sucks. Shut up nerds.
* That one bit where H spends forever wildly estimating the number of "men" (both combatants and noncombatants) in Xerxes' army to the nearest 10 when it is more than 5 million, and then goes "also eunuchs, women, and animals, but who counts those sorts of things?"
* The experience of reading the thing
Conclusion:
I'm glad I don't live in 400BCE when all there was to read was this trash. More evidence, if such was needed, that life sucked before the advent of the Animorphs franchise.