Herodotus: The Comic Book
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Herodotus: The Comic Book
Herodotus the Historian
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Aims & More
I HOPE TO PRESERVE FROM DECAY THE REMEMBRANCE OF WHAT MEN HAVE DONE (1.1)
Who was Herodotus? What did he look like? Did he enjoy recording the glorious deeds of man kind? Did he have a family? What did they think of his obsessive gossip habit? What motivated him when he got up in the morning? Which team would he support on a Persian vs. Phoenician football match?
Some of these questions we have a fair stab at answering. Others are as easy to answer as the Delphic oracles.
This comic book gives you an introduction with what we do know about Herodotus the Halicarnassian - and then guides you through his Histories.
MEN TRUST THEIR EARS LESS THAN THEIR EYES
This is a comic book, yes. But it's more than your average comic book. This is a comic book designed to be entertaining, thought-provoking, educational and as faithful as possible to the original of Herodotus' Histories.
Herodotus' work is designed perfectly for the comic form, separated as it is into vignettes of action and reflection, with an underlying theme connecting it all.
The idea for this project started several eons ago when I was a 15 year old studying Herodotus at school. This needs illustrations, I thought! More than that, wasn't Herodotus trying to encourage every reader to picture his words as vividly as possible? Couldn't I help with this?
I tested this out with years of teaching, seeing how students responded to classical texts in cartoon form, in graphic novel form, in animated form. I observed how the visual image helped literary appreciation and analysis, how it fomented a sturdier understanding of the text.
I saw the comic book form as the healthiest medium between the static two-dimensional image which still enables the mind to roam free and the three-dimensional move clip, which prescribes rather than describes.