"Aside from that, I'm curious how much of the reading list will be doable these days without a solid grasp of Greek or Latin or French ?"
A whole hell of a lot. You could probably download better than 90% from gutenberg.org, though I am not qualified to say how good or bad the translations are. If you want paper, your local Borders probably has 40 percent or more on its shelves. At least, they always seem to have about a foot or more of Herodotus (Landmark, histories, excerpts).
A whole hell of a lot. You could probably download better than 90% from gutenberg.org, though I am not qualified to say how good or bad the translations are. If you want paper, your local Borders probably has 40 percent or more on its shelves. At least, they always seem to have about a foot or more of Herodotus (Landmark, histories, excerpts).