Herodotus and Xenophon

A couple questions for my Latro supplemental reading: 1. Which works of Herodotus and Xenophon are the most relevant to the Soldier books? 2. Are there good public domain translations available on-line? It would be nice if I could stick them on my Palm Pilot to read at odd moments, but I'd get a book if the translation were a lot better. The only one of Herodotus I see on first Google is by George Rawlinson.

Rostrum asks:

One of the most fabulously useful resources on the Web is the Online Books Page at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ an attempt to keep up and index all books and major texts in English available for free on the Web. A search for Herodotus there turns up one translation of "An Account of Egypt" and three of the "Histories": http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=Herodotus &amode=words A search for Xenophon turns up too many to summarize here: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=Xenophon& amode=words Also of interest might be the MIT Internet Classics Archive (http://classics.mit.edu/), and the Perseus Project at Tufts (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/). Hope this helps,

Thanks for the links, but my question was not so much "Where are they?" as "Are they good translations?" -- Rostrum

There is only one work of Herodotos. It is called 'The History'. Xenophon's Anabasis is probably more relevant. .

Slight correction.

More relevant than the rest of Xenophon, I mean. Not more relevant than Herodotos. .

Hi Michael, Below are a couple of sites you may want to check out. The first is Perseus, which contains many of the Classical Texts in entirity, both in English and Greek, and relevant commentary and other fun stuff. There you will find the Histories by Herodotus, and the Narrative of the expiditions of Cyrus the Younger by Xenophon. Have fun! The second is another site, lots of stuff there, but that's primarily where I go for straight reading of Herodotus, no commentary or stuff. The first site, while complete, is rather clumsy, lots of maps and charts and translation tools, but it only shows a couple of paragraphs at a time, and takes a long time just to read one chapter...the second works well but has no fun extras, like lexicons...I suggest using the sites together. Have fun with history! It rocks! razorkittee http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_herodotus_1.htm?terms=Milesian+migration

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