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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Itโ€™s really crazy how premodern historians used to just completely make things up. Even if the exaggerations and fibs are not as extreme I have a private suspicion that most of recorded history is essentially false.
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Michael of St. Joseph ๐Ÿ”
@michaelofstjoe
I'm not sure what this excerpt is in reference to, but I think premodern historians were much more honest than we give them credit for. However, the ancient world had a fundamentally different way of seeing and describing the world around them. If you take everything at face-value it will sound like a fantasy story.
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Many did their best for sure. The issue is that the definition of what is โ€œtrueโ€ shifts according to time and place
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