My own part was mostly limited to the transcription and proofreading (any errors are thus mine, and corrections are always welcome), as well as linking to other useful Herodotus resources: chief among them, Rawlinson's monumental translation and commentary (1860), How and Wells' commentary (1928) -īoth of these provided as running links in the left margin, as shown here ← and, in the text and notes where relevant, articles In addition, 118 often splendid photographs of his illustrate and enliven the text of our historian, but they were carefully selected for relevance: with lingering regret I can tell you that a few beautiful photos had to be passed by because they would have been mere eye-candy, and there's plenty of that online as is. If, as I believe, we succeeded, it's in large part due to Jona's work rather than mine, bringing to the project as he did the perspective of a professional historian in tune with recent developments in archaeology and historical scholarship: they find their way into this transcription mostly as an array of footnotes. ) - I knew full well there were already texts of him online, fourteen of them in fact but most suffered from serious defects: Jona and I wanted something better. When I decided to put Herodotus online - being warmly encouraged to do so by my friend Jona Lendering (of
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