Legendary Lost Persian Army Found in Sahara

[JDR Dragoon]

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. :)
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I fail to see your point. Just because sources are political documents does not mean that history cannot be written on the basis of them. And even if a source is unverifiable, its very unverifiability still allows you to reason about the conditions and purtpose behind their creation (Like the Historia Augusta for instance)

PS.
I have never written that I discount Herodotus wholesale. And neither did most of those german scholars that you seem to dislike so much