So, then I decided that Thucydides’s The History of the Peloponnesian War would be my daytime reading. Okay, that was settled.
Then I started bumping into this new translation of Homer’s The Iliad—in the introduction of the Virgil book, the department chair where I teach is reading it—and so, “Better order that”—y’know, for reference.
And THEN a student of mine asked me, “Hey Harms, have you ever read Herodotus’s The Histories? [sigh] I’m insecure that I have never read that! Why did he have to ask about that particular book?? Seriously? And what if another student asks me that next semester? I feel like such a loser.
So … you can see where this is going. I ordered that, and guess what my daytime reading is now? Yep. Me and Herodotus.
You’ll see in the photo that there are two translations of Thucydides. Because, of course you need two! Duh.
