Read Herodotus for 2 hours

>read Herodotus for 2 hours
>28 pages

A-a-am I a cripple?

He can be hard to read because he was writing right before the sophistic period began so his way of organizing things is completely his own. The Histories read like an oral tradition put to paper. He often includes mythology in his history, some of which he doesn't even believe, but wants to present the story to the reader and let them decide whether it might have validity.

But once you get past the fact that he constantly digresses, then digresses from his digressions into new digressions, there is no comfier writer among the ancient Greeks.

What is a standard white reading pace?

1000 pages/hour.

sounds about right

>actually reading Herodotus

You know his work is just chronicles right? It's best read by historians who can synthesize it into a true understanding of Greek history. It's not really literature by itself. Read a modern ancient Greece history book instead.

Relaxa, user. Montanus Dantesque et Aquinas etiam cum Græco luctabantur.

t. hasn't rred Herodotus and doesn't know there are almost no other ancient sources anyway

t. didn't even read my whole reply.

Herodotus is surprisingly legible considering the time it was written, but I just find myself getting really bored and kinda wishing I was reading something else. It's worth it though, with the fun little digressions about weird traditions and idiosyncrasies of the different nations