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Title: Not ideal for students
Review: R.A. McNeal's HERODOTUS: BOOK I is a text of Clio prepared after the scholar's examination of the papyri together with a commentary. An introduction is included that discusses the history of the text, with some nice details such as photographs of pages from Papyrus No. 89 and Laurentianus.Unfortunately, the text is set in a rather unattractive typeface, limiting readability. Before I picked up this book, I was making some use of the Oxford Classical Text, and the difference is painfully clear. The commentary isn't as helpful as other student readers I have read.If you are a student reading Herodotus, I'd recommend J. H. Sleeman's reader HERODOTUS: BOOK I (Bristol Classical Press, 2003), which is nicely typeset in Oxonia and contains very useful footnotes.
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