(urth) new history of the Peloponnesian War

[Mo Holkar / UKG]

At 22:36 08/08/2006, Matthew wrote:
>Regarding wariness toward modern books:  where do you suppose 
>the  authors get their historical information about the Persian war 
>if not  from Herodotos, et al.?


I think the point was though that Wolfe relishes and draws on the 
oddities and fantasies of Herodotus, which may be dismissed as 
unhistorical by modern scholars. So Herodotus may be in some ways 
more "infomative" when reading Wolfe than a 'but this is what 
actually happened' account.

Mo