Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers with me, Murray, your 10 minutes of ancient warfare for the week, where I attempt to answer a question from a viewer, reader or listener, and they ask me a question about something ancient warfare related or ancient

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Now, the question from Musa, UR4 is an interesting one, not necessarily warfare related,

but I will twist it to warfare.

Question, as someone who has just started my casual deep dive into reading the ancient

Greek and Roman writers, who are your go-to translators for your favorite texts?

Is more modern generally better?

For example, I struggled to get hold of a copy of Herodotus's histories through my local

bookseller.

They only had the Penguin Books version by Aubrey de Selancourt, but I know there is

more, there is a more modern translation by Tom Holland, not Spider-Man.

Not Spider-Man, who's he?

Not Spider-Man.

Right.

Now, firstly, in defense of Aubrey de Salon-Core, I love Aubrey de Salon-Core's translation.

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