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Dr C. M. Bromstick🧹, Dublin
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Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin

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Early Medieval historian: Ireland & Britain, kingship, landscapes, mentalities | knitting, video games, bread | ND | disabled | she/her | #BlackLivesMatter

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    1.  🚩Shepherd 🏴‏ @NeolithicSheep May 15

       🚩Shepherd 🏴 Retweeted Vinny Thomas ¡

      Ok wait did anyone out there actually believe that Herodotos, he who reported on the existence of the phoenix and that India was occupied by giant ants and Ethiopia by people who lived in holes and shrieked like bats, was not to be taken with a grain of salt?https://twitter.com/vinn_ayy/status/1393540743898312712 …

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      Vinny Thomas ¡ @vinn_ayy
      Herodotus is over party. pic.twitter.com/g7h1PVyXcg
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    2.  🚩Shepherd 🏴‏ @NeolithicSheep May 15

      Like there's an awful lot of reporting on this find that implies anyone thinks that people read Herodotos and believe him without verifying with outside sources and we don't do that with any text, let alone one that claims hippos have manes and tails like horses.

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    3.  🚩Shepherd 🏴‏ @NeolithicSheep May 15

      ALSO since it has come up, that battle occurred roughly 4 or 5 years before Herodotos was born, and nowhere near him. It was probably at least 20 years in the past by the time he heard stories about it and wrote them down. He got his info from what he heard from others.

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    4.  🚩Shepherd 🏴‏ @NeolithicSheep May 15

      So we also cannot tell a clear cut story like "Herodotos deliberately lied about the battle".

      1 reply 1 retweet 67 likes
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    5.  🚩Shepherd 🏴‏ @NeolithicSheep May 15

      He did what a lot of historians do today. He wandered around and talked to people and wrote down what he learned. He did not however cite his sources, so we don't know where he got the information.

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    6.  🚩Shepherd 🏴‏ @NeolithicSheep May 15

      For all we know he got the info on that particular battle from a dude everyone local knew was a notorious fabulist, but nobody warned the guy from out of town and here we are. If only he had written down "learned in a tavern in Plataea from Bob the Drunkard"

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    7.  🚩Shepherd 🏴‏ @NeolithicSheep May 15

      And while I'm at it we all know Homer probably wasn't a real person, right? RIGHT?

      7 replies 1 retweet 104 likes
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    8. Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin‏ @AdmiralHip May 15
      Replying to @NeolithicSheep

      lmao literally the first thing we learned when I did Greek history is that you can't trust a single goddamn thing anyone wrote.

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      Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin‏ @AdmiralHip May 15
      Replying to @AdmiralHip @NeolithicSheep

      Herodotus is great! But like any historical source he might have been...wrong? Why this is a shock to people I have no idea.

      6:14 AM - 15 May 2021
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