itibaren Varsola, Gujarat 387130, Hindistan
I have only made it half way through this book and I think that I am going to give up. For some reason this book is making me depressed. I know the point is to follow her on her journey of self discovery but it also invites you to look with in your self. This has never been a process I have been good at it and truthfully one I have never enjoyed. I discussed this fact with Paul today and I explained that I am scared of discovering something that I don't want to know or see he replied that maybe what I would discover would be positive. I wish this were true but when ever I start along my own path I just get miserable. SO for now I am content to not look with in myself and maybe it was just this weekend or maybe it is this year where I am not prepared for such a book. But I will possibly try to read it again.
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1980032.html[return][return]A Penguin collection of extracts from Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Polybius, showing the start and early evolution of historical writing. As I am less familiar than I would like with the historical background, a lot of this sailed over my head (I would have liked more footnotes and maps), but I appreciated the raw approach of Herodotus, the critical attitude of all of them to other writers (not that this stopped them making stuff up themselves) and the closing passage from Polybius comparing the Roman constitution with the constitutions of less successful states (he singles out Rome's institutionalisation of religion as a key factor).