It’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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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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For sure. We barely even know what’s going on today!

I think you could make the same criticism of the "information age" we live in now.

Many did their best for sure. The issue is that the definition of what is “true” shifts according to time and place