Danish Moo Cow said:LOL, bring it. Are you saying you didn't miss this week's performance?
Very convienient.
Herodotus never went anywhere.
Original_Chook said:Herodotus never went anywhere.
Is this an actual historical theory of yours?
From what I know of Herodotus, his records of some of the places he claims to have seen are a bit dodgy. He forgets key landmarks, gets measurements wrong etc.
This is off the track I know, but I thought it was quite interesting you have it as your signiture - I think he did go places both geographically, and in his written records of Greece - but nevertheless an interesting statement.
it made me laugh thinking, "what a nutter that guy was."
I have little doubt he travelled, and travelled a long way. But his accounts were, in a lot of cases, dumb. His Egyptian stories were great, but the bad details on the rest of Africa, India and anything before his time were pretty ordinary. It's almost all second hand info which begs the question, did he even go there. What about the gold digging ants the size of dogs?
No way, he'd be foreign affairs minister in a coalition government.