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  "thread": {
    "id": 3586,
    "subject": "Herodotus",
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    "first": "2002-11-18T15:57:48+00:00",
    "last": "2002-11-18T15:57:48+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0211-2149@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Wynn",
        "address": "crushtv at hotpop.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-11-18T15:57:48+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Herodotus",
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          "text": "Chris said:\nI'm getting a copy this weekend, in fact, and I\nwondered if anyone here had a translation they would particularly recommend\nabove all others.\n\nCrush responds:\nThis is clearly too late to help you but I'll post anyway.\n\nThe Modern Library uses a Rawlinson translation with the artificially\nantiquated language modernized slightly. It also uses the numbering system\niirc he created. The numbering system is useful for referencing quotes since\nthis translation is the most widely available. The problem with Modern\nLibrary (at least for my copy) is that there is no index. Whatever copy you\nget, you will be more satisfied with one that has an index. (I wish Tor\nwould include indices in Wolfe's books).\n\nThis would suggest that a Penguin Classics copy would be your best bet.\nAlso, I'm informed that the Penguin version also includes a bibliography, a\nglossary, and a chronology (I've decided to get this myself now). I should\nhave asked my source what numbering system it uses. The translator is Aubrey\nde Selincourt. I haven't read this version but I can honestly say that I\nusually prefer Penguin's translators to all others - but, alas, they have no\nhardcover copies.\n\n-- Crush"
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