Legendary Lost Persian Army Found in Sahara

[jonnymacbrown]

"And just which parts of 19th century prussian/german Herodotus scholarship is derived from "politicized sources"? Something in particular you are thinking of here?"
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The revolution in Historiography, started in Prussia by von Ranke; the notion that it's not history unless there are verifiable sources, and much more often than not, those sources are political documents. This school of thought discounts Herodotus primarily for the same reasons that you do. :)
J