My favourite at the moment is Book2 Euterpe. Any recommendations for others in the series?

I'm getting into Ancient Greek history and plan to teach it to my kids. I have been considering the use of Herodotus (in audiobook form) as a way of getting my kids more immersed in the history. They love podcasts and I think would take well to Herodotus' style. Is there any sexual content that would be inappropriate for kids? It's such a big book I haven't yet taken the time to read it all.

What would be a good audiobook version of Herodotus?

I’m currently reading Herodotus’ History. Great read. But many times I caught myself thinking that it would be cool if there was a collection of maps that showed every single place Herodotus mentions. Some sort of auxiliary material in a form of an ebook or a website. I know, that I can just google everything I need to know, but I don’t always do. Sometimes I’m too lazy and just continue reading without having a clear understanding of where exactly some events, that Herodotus mentions, took place. He also describes countries, mentions multiple tribes. It would be nice to have maps handy on such occasions.

I even thought that in future I might reread the book but this time collecting maps from the internet and arranging them on a webpage or in a pdf file with references to the text of History. I would also mark any tribe that Herodotus mentions on those maps.

But then I thought that surely something like that must have already been done. So, my question is do you know of any such collection of maps in existence?

I am so fascinated by Herodotus' History that I decided to read each book 10 times. By now I have read first book 10 times and second book 7 times. It is a priceless treasure of human kind. With every new reading I notice something new, that I haven't noticed before. It is something that I will surely be reading for rest of my life.

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My favorite part from first book is when Croesus ask Solon who is happiest man in the world, and Solon tell him story about Kleobis and Biton

Hi everyone, I am currently volunteering for a project to set up a multi-lingual live reading of Herodotus' Histories in the near future. However, to do this we need to calculate the average time it takes to read the whole thing over different languages. If anybody knows a non-English language and owns a non-English translation of Herodotus, I would greatly appreciate if they could time how long it takes to read Book 2 chs. 27-31 in that language . It should only be around 5 minutes long and any language is welcome. If you do it please either dm me or reply to this post with what language your copy is translated in, how long it took you to read, the name of the translator you used, and the date of translation. Thank you for the help!

I’m doing a paper on the size of xerxes army and I know Herodotus claimed it was over 2 million or something which was incorrect but I was wondering if anyone knew exactly where in Herodotus: The Histories does he states that. Can’t find it for the life of me and I gotta get this done

Herodotus' Histories have some fantastic anthropological and sociological surveys of other civilizations. Some of the most interesting passages (at least to me) were his inquiries into Egyptian customs, i.e that their customs were the "reverse" of other societies. How much of this is reliable? Proven by academic scholarship? How much is unprovable, or completely false?

So, when discussing Egypt, in the picture of the great pyramid(Figure 2.124A), the caption states the rider is on a camel, but it's a horse. Or are my eyes failing me? I know it's not a real big deal, but I figured he would want to be accurate. Does anyone know if this has been changed for later editions(I have June 2009)?

One of the greatest editions of Herodotus that one can find is the Landmark Edition (edited by Robert Strassler) with a new translation by Andrea Purvis. It not only contains the great text of Herodotus, but also has fantastic notes and maps for any level of scholar who is interested.