http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/ Herodotus -- a forum for slow readings Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:35:08 GMT Lancelot Fletcher http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/580 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/580 ... Karen wrote me a couple of days ago to say that she was suffering from bronchial pneumonia. But she promised to post a message soon. I hope Karen gets well Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:19:20 GMT Dimit94844@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/579 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/579 I've already read the introduction in Grene's translation as was suggested we do! Dimitri ... From: Gooeyduk@... To: herodotus@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sat, Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:07:43 GMT Gooeyduk@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/578 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/578 I've got my Herodotus book, my reading glasses, and my bowl of popcorn. What's next? ************** Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:50:54 GMT leslie greenhill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/577 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/577 For the benefit of others, I am sending a paper entitled "How Plato designed Atlantis" to Lance. In a succeeding paper "Grand Design in Antiquity", it is Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:18:18 GMT leslie greenhill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/576 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/576 Hi Lance I will send something in the near future. Family matters are taking up my time for the moment. However, I will send you a document under separate Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:30:38 GMT Lancelot Fletcher http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/575 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/575 I have been reading the beginning of the new translation by Shlomo Felberbaum, and I confess that I find it quite charming, so I thought I would share the Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:48:04 GMT Lancelot Fletcher http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/574 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/574 Les, ... I don't have a view, but I am open to considering the possibility. The influence of the Pythagoreans on the development of Greek thought in the 6th Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:43:05 GMT Lancelot Fletcher http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/573 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/573 I have added a few links to the Herodotus group website that may be useful for members. For those of you who have access the group website, you may go to: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:32:17 GMT Lancelot Fletcher http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/572 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/572 I want to enthusiastically welcome Karen Smith as our leader in a new reading of the "inquiries" (`istoriai) of Herodotus. At the same time I want to offer Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:38:21 GMT Karen C. Smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/571 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/571 Lancelot, I thought I had stated that in my previous post, and see that my fingers are not as quick as my mind. :-( Thank you for stating my omission. Karen Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:25:45 GMT Lancelot Fletcher http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/570 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/570 Karen, That's actually a link to the Amazon.com listing for David Grene's translation. It is not a link to an etext version of Grene's text. To the best of my Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:18:39 GMT kcsmith38 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/569 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/569 I apologize in advance... for anyone who is interested,lrFletcher provided a link for Grene's translation that is found under "links" on our group homepage. Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:09:18 GMT Karen C. Smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/568 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/568 Hello to everyone and Happy New Year! Thank you for your confidence and I hope that you will enjoy this reading of ?The History? as I certainly intend to. Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:17:53 GMT neoplatonist2000 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/567 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/567 Dimitri You may not be aware of the poor translation (in my view) of some Greek and other measures by De'Selincourt. He sometimes changes Greek measures to Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:42:29 GMT Gooeyduk@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/566 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/herodotus/message/566 Hi Karen: It would be great if you would drive the bus on a Herodotus tour. I'm very interested in riding along, though I'll probably be sitting quietly in