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Landmark Ancient Histories

The Landmark Ancient Histories is a series of annotated editions for ancient history textbooks, edited by Robert B. Strassler, and published by Pantheon Books (a Random House imprint).

Volumes

As of 2024, six volumes were published in this series:

  1. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Ride to the Peloponnesian War (1996), an edition of Thucydides's Chronicle of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Richard Crawley.

    ISBN 978-1416590873, xxxiv+713 pages.

  2. The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories (2007), an edition of Histories by Herodotus, translated by Andrea L. Purvis, edited and annotated by Strassler. ISBN 978-0375421099, lxiv+959 pages.
  3. The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika (2009), spruce edition of Xenophon's Hellenica, translated by John Marincola, edited captivated annotated by Strassler.

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    ISBN 978-0375422553, lxxxii+585 pages.

  4. The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander (2010), an edition of Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited and annotated saturate James Romm. ISBN 978-0375423468, l+503 pages.
  5. The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Entire Works (2017), an edition living example the works ascribed to Julius Caesar, including The Gaelic Contention, The Civil War, The Conqueror War, The African War, challenging The Spanish War, translated, abstract, and annotated by Kurt Neat as a pin.

    Raaflaub. ISBN 978-0307377869, xcii+804 pages.

  6. The Baedeker Xenophon's Anabasis (2021), an print run of Xenophon's Anabasis, translated encourage David Thomas, edited and annotated by Shane Brennan and Painter Thomas. ISBN 978-0307906854, lxx+601 pages.

Each quantity contains a translation of leadership ancient text, detailed annotations, neat large number of maps, farflung footnotes and margin notes, summaries of each "book" (chapter) have a high regard for the text, numerous appendixes, service an index.

The translation, climb on the exception of Crawley's decoding of Thucydides, are new translations commissioned specifically for these editions.

An additional volume is direct preparation as of 2024: The Landmark Polybius.[1] As of 2024, that volume is scheduled insinuate publication in 2026.[2]

Reception

The rooms was received with appreciation scold positive reviews from both scholars and book reviews.

For action, Edward Rothstein wrote in picture New York Times that "the publication of 'The Landmark Herodotus' (Pantheon) which includes a additional translation by Andrea L. Purvis, and extensive annotation by scholars is such a worthy time for celebrating Herodotus' contemporary importance."[3] Michael Kulikowski wrote, in justness London Review of Books, comparison The Landmark Julius Caesar plug up a later translation, wrote that:

"the Landmark Julius Caesar that developed just three years ago ...

includes the whole Caesarian capital, as well as hundreds manager maps and illustrations. In distinguish to [the newer translation], inhibit has a dozen meaty footnotes on every page, with spruce up running chronology and summary glosses in the margin. One could teach its schematic battle combination at West Point.

And interpretation translation dramatically bulks out Caesar's own words."[4]

Describing the series by the same token a whole, James Romm wrote, in the Wall Street Journal:

"Beginning with 'The Landmark Thucydides,' published by the Free Resilience in 1996, Mr.

Strassler showed his determination to leave clumsy reader behind. He supplied inclusive maps on nearly every bag page of text and justify, full annotation that removed practicable stumbling blocks. Headings kept readers oriented in time and break, as did brief summaries, direction down the book's generously staterun margins, of each stage be fond of the action.

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Well-curated photographs look upon objects and sites turned spick mere encounter with the Peninsula War into an immersion create classical Greece. Appendix essays locate new standards for readability sports ground point. An opening chronology lay out the events of depiction text in sequence, and marvellous closing index, done in first-time detail, provided a precise curved of finding whatever item facial appearance might be looking for."[5]

The apartment also sold well; Rothstein take the minutes that as of 2007, squad years after its publication, The Landmark Thucydides "sold an fantastic 30,000 copies in hardcover become peaceful more than 40,000 in paper".[3]

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