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Commentary on Books I-IV; Appendices I-XV; Ethnography of Western Asia Minor and the Lydian History of Herodotus; Assyria and Babylon; Median History; Cyrus and the Rise of Persia; Reign of Cambyses and the Early Years of Darius Hystaspes; Persian System of Government; Persian Satrapies; Religion of the Ancient Persians and Herodotus; Herodotus in Egypt; History of Egypt in relation to Herodotus; Scythia and the Scyths; Scythian Expedition; Geography of Herodotus; Chronology of Herodotus; Pelasgi; Additional Notes
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reviewed A Commentary on Herodotus, Volume 1 on May 27, 2013
A Commentary on Herodotus, Volume 1
This was recommended to me as the 'go to' book for studying Emperor Domitian A.D. 81-96. I requested the loan of this book from my local library since the hardback copy was priced at £93.99 on Amazon; paperback at £35.99; and Kindle at £26.99 - none of which I could afford. I'm absolutely delighted to say that Aberdeenshire Libraries, and Kintore in particular, did me proud by acquiring a paperback copy for me.
This gave me many some insights about Domitian that I wouldn't have managed to extract from other sources. I particularly enjoyed the references Pat Southern used from contemporary and later sources - poets and writers - which I personally can't read in the original Latin or Greek. These focused on an emperor who knew he was always going to come to power after the successful careers of his brother Titus, and father Vespasian. Whether, or not, he had anything to do with the early demise of his brother Titus, it was an onerous task to assume the mantle of the emperor during the expansion of the Roman Empire when there were many other 'power hungry' military commanders with multiple Roman legions backing them.
I didn't learn very much about Domitian's policies regarding Britannia but reading between the lines of Pat Southern's text, Domitian had to concentrate on the insurrection that was closest to Rome. What happened on the periphery of the western Empire boundary was not his main concern.
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