Quote Originally Posted by ganulv View Post
Have you taken a stab at Herodotus? I don’t think anyone would go so far as to call The Histories readable—the historical geography in The Landmark edition helps, as does Carolyn Dewald’s Introduction in the Oxford World’s Classics edition—but that has a lot to do with the scope of his ambition. As the editor of The Landmark edition says, Thucydides was interested in politics and warfare, Herodotus was interested in everything.
I have taken a stab at Herodotus and intend to return again to him (a copy is also sitting on my Kindle).

I studied a lot of Greek philosophy while at university, I am finding The Histories readable in comparison