Movies, Art and Literature

The English Patient

Herodotus and The English Patient by Thomas Harrison for Classics Ireland 1998.

"Like Minghella, Herodotus - by conjuring up some psychologically plausible pillow-talk or by supplying (generally less plausible) numbers where none are available, slips from a focus on historical truth to one on verisimilitude. If The English Patient has given rise then to a controversy over the boundaries between history and fiction, it has only reawakened an argument as old as history itself. Herodotus may be the 'Father of History', as Almásy has it, but certainly not history as we know it."

Amazon. The English Patient (1996) on DVD. Also available on VHS videotape.

Herodotus Goes to Hollywood by Alan A. Stone, Boston Review.