This touches on something I‘ve long wondered: how does credence estimation in history work? Like is there a database somewhere where I can say "ok, give me all the pieces of info from X that we think are reliable and why"? Or is there a "sense" you develop after years of reading?https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1349222878487728129 …
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Diodorus is writing much later (first century - 400 years later) and so reliant on intermediate sources (like Herodotus). He's also writing a 'universal' history down to his present, so he's hardly likely to have gone and checked every detail.
Consequently, Diodorus is really valuable, but other sources closer to the events described are generally a bit more reliable than he is, because he writes at such distance and using intermediate sources.
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Diodorus is also not quite as critical in his approach to those sources - he often doesn't note what they are. By contrast, Polybius and Livy both try to make judgements about the reliability of their (now lost) sources.
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