Herodotus is disproven more often than he is proven right. Especially when it comes to numbers.
Colchida on
Awaiting when Gamer makers like Paradox acknowledges that stops putting “Abkhazian” in 15th century map game, when there were none, but Zans – Georgian ethnic group
bonvoyageespionage on
“Quite a lot” is doing a shitload of heavy lifting here imo
Mysterious_Silver_27 on
Where context?
EtherealPheonix on
Didn’t Herodotous say in his own book that he doesn’t trust most of his sources?
JacenStargazer on
I think of Herodotus as less of what we would call a historian and more of an anthropologist. He wrote down stories as they were told to him, though they may or may not have actually been true.
TheCoolPersian on
“We Owe Him An Apology”.
0 sources or any comment explaining why. Yea, no we don’t.
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context?
some context would be welcomed
Herodotus is disproven more often than he is proven right. Especially when it comes to numbers.
Awaiting when Gamer makers like Paradox acknowledges that stops putting “Abkhazian” in 15th century map game, when there were none, but Zans – Georgian ethnic group
“Quite a lot” is doing a shitload of heavy lifting here imo
Where context?
Didn’t Herodotous say in his own book that he doesn’t trust most of his sources?
I think of Herodotus as less of what we would call a historian and more of an anthropologist. He wrote down stories as they were told to him, though they may or may not have actually been true.
“We Owe Him An Apology”.
0 sources or any comment explaining why. Yea, no we don’t.