Filled with insights into the unique geography and anthropology of the time, Herodotus also delves into the human psyche, exploring the importance of religion, the costs of war, the sacrifice of life, and what it meant to be a free and independent state. In his Histories, he recounts the rise of the Persian Empire and its tumultuous war with the Greek city-states. Purvis, with a introduction by Rosalind Thomas, The Landmark Herodotus is a hefty tome that will delight any historian or fan of Herodotus and the classical Greek period.Ĭalled “the father of history” by Cicero, Herodotus was an Ionian Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BCE. Strassler, editor of The Landmark Thucydides, now brings us The Landmark Herodotus. Classical history through primary sources has never been so accessible, with the success of Robert Fagles’ translations of The Odyssey, The Iliad, and The Aeneid Robert B.
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They returned to Breckenridge, MN in 1963, where they made their life and raised their family. Genevieve married her husband James in the fall of 1956, and relocated for a short time to Herman, MN. Josephs School of Nursing, part of the University of North Dakota, graduating in 1956 as a Registered Nurse. She graduated from Ortonville High School in 1953 and attended the Sisters of St. Genevieve (Jenny or Gene) was born on Jand raised in Ortonville, MN. Genevieve will be buried at the ND Veterans Cemetery with her husband of 61 years, James Grosz. (Smith) Grosz, 87, went to our Lords care on April 5, 2023.Ī Mass of Christian Burial will be said at 12:30 PM, Monday, April 17 at Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, 520 Raymond St., Bismarck.Ī Rosary/Vigil service will be held at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, April 16 at Eastgate Funeral Service, 2302 E. Margot joins Barbara to talk about Scorched Grace, the first imprint of Gillian Flynn/Zando. Honors include the Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Award, Finalist (2020), Red Hen Press Quill Prose Award, Finalist (2019), C&R Press Best Novel Award, Longlist (2018), Lambda Literary Award Poetry, Finalist (2015), and River Styx Micro-Fiction Contest Finalist (2015). Douaihy’s work has been featured in PBS NewsHour, Colorado Review, Madison Review, Tahoma Literary Review, North American Review, among others. Douaihy’s sleuth fiction inhabits and reconstructs hardboiled PI tropes through a queer lens. Douaihy is the author of the true-crime poetry project Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr Scranton Lace the Lambda Literary Finalist Girls Like You (Clemson University Press) and I Would Ruby If I Could (Factory Hollow Press). Margot Douaihy earned a BA in Writing from the University of Pittsburgh Writing Program, an MA in Creative & Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. |