…of translations. Lattimore is great and close to the Greek, but I find Fitzgerald's to be the most enjoyable. He gives up some precision to get more poetry, and it's like reading to a soundtrack. The Histories of Herodotus are fun too, but more history than literature. If you get The Landmark Herodotus, the maps and notes help a lot. I would just be aware of what you're reading: ostensibly this is a history of the Persian…
……是古波斯语（kanab）的借词。它从希腊语几乎原封不动地进入了拉丁语（cannabis），然后再由此进入罗曼语族和英语。”[引自 A. D. Godley 译本《希罗多德历史》(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1920), 4.74-6.]
…was a loan-word from Old Persian (kanab). From Greek, it made its way largely unchanged into Latin (cannabis) and from thence into the Romance languages and English." [Citing A. D. Godley, trans. The Histories of Herodotus (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1920), 4.74-6.]
《无尽的玩笑》《尤利西斯》《自私的基因》《希罗多德历史》《白鲸》《哥德尔、艾舍尔、巴赫》
Infinite Jest Ulysses The Selfish Gene The Histories of Herodotus Moby-Dick Gödel, Escher, Bach
……各种译本。Lattimore 的版本很棒，也很忠于希腊原文，但我发现 Fitzgerald 的版本读起来最过瘾。他为了追求更强的诗意牺牲了一点精确性，读起来就像自带背景音乐一样。《希罗多德历史》也很有趣，但偏重历史多过文学。如果你买《The Landmark Herodotus》，里面的地图和注释帮助极大。我只想提醒一句，要清楚自己在读什么：表面上看这是一部波斯……的历史
…of translations. Lattimore is great and close to the Greek, but I find Fitzgerald's to be the most enjoyable. He gives up some precision to get more poetry, and it's like reading to a soundtrack. The Histories of Herodotus are fun too, but more history than literature. If you get The Landmark Herodotus, the maps and notes help a lot. I would just be aware of what you're reading: ostensibly this is a history of the Persian…
……是古波斯语（kanab）的借词。它从希腊语几乎原封不动地进入了拉丁语（cannabis），然后再由此进入罗曼语族和英语。”[引自 A. D. Godley 译本《希罗多德历史》(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1920), 4.74-6.]
…was a loan-word from Old Persian (kanab). From Greek, it made its way largely unchanged into Latin (cannabis) and from thence into the Romance languages and English." [Citing A. D. Godley, trans. The Histories of Herodotus (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1920), 4.74-6.]