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From: wthyde1953@gmail.com
Paul S Person wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 21:26:12 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/4/26 21:18, Your Name wrote:
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>>> You don't need the mythical stories of the Bible. There are plenty of
>>> actual "historic records" that are wrong - either because the person
>>> writing it didn't know enough at the time or because they simply lied.
>>>
>>
>> Name another volume that people might be familiar with, please.
>
> Well, I kind of suspect that Herodotus, the Father of History, never
> actually saw the Ant-Men he wrote about.
>
> And comparing his version of the Course of the Nile with reality
> suggests he missed a turn somewhere in the Sudan, resulting in a Nile
> that moves West directly below the Sahara instead of continuing on
> South.
>
> And Thucydides, in /The Peloponesian Wars/, explicitly states that all
> those great speeches he gives were made up by him to suit the
> situation.
According to M. I. Findlay, Thucydides claimed that he was not writing
history, but merely selecting episodes from this war as lessons for
future Athenian leaders. The speeches, presumably, illustrated the
points he hoped to make.
He even, at one point, expressed some contempt for pure historians.
>
> And, despite Schliemann's literally digging Troy and Mycenae out of
> the ground, many believe that Homer's accounts were not entirely
> accurate.
>
According to the Anglo-Saxon chronicle, written by monks, no Anglo-Saxon
king who was in good standing with the church ever lost a battle, while
no king who was in bad standing with the church ever won one.
In this they were hewing to ancient precedent, the story of Ahab in the OT.
William Hyde
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