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“Which is unfortunate.
I’ve stuck it out for around 30 episodes and wanted to enjoy this as much as other history podcasts... but I don’t.
The grammar slips, near-miss vocabulary and mispronunciation are getting really grating. I’m not talking about a regional difference, or accent, or common mispronunciations. I’m talking about using the wrong word. It’s distinctly at odds with the long passages using very elevated language.
I’ve seen others saying they’ve found the sources (ahem, Wikipedia articles) he’s lifted from and that sounds very believable but I’m disenchanted enough to not care enough to check it out myself. He also doesn’t give much to credit his sources. Honestly that was an impression that I had been trying to combat because I knew that I was basically judging that someone who speaks like this wouldn’t be able to write that intelligently.
Despite the fact that he seems to be splicing material together from other sources without citing them, it’s really tough to follow the narrative.
For example, I just finished listening to an episode that was purportedly about Herodotus and would have been a great opportunity to explore the the influence of the Father of History on how we understand the history of Classical Greece. Instead it’s this hour-long ‘biography’ of Cyrus the Great and his battle with Croesus with occasional interjections that historians disagree with Herodotus’s account then going right back to reciting it without warning. He literally said Croesus was rescued from the pyre by Apollo according to Herodotus but historians think Thucydides is more reliable with his account of Croesus being killed, then continues to talk about Cyrus consulting his advisor Croesus.
That is off the wall to me.
I’m a quitter.”
llamalove1234567 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/15/21
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