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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
It's funny how often we take a single source as 'fact' (for instance, Herodotus) and then dismiss that same source if/when he starts talking about events we're predisposed to dismiss.
So much of what we claim to know about the Persian empire, for instance, comes from one or two guys and word of mouth. And it becomes unassailable truth.
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History is generally written by the victors. At least, it was that way from the Bronze Age through the Iron Age. We often only have one side of the story, if we have an account of the story at all.