| ▲ | adammarples 19 hours ago |
| Regardless, he reported a lot of made up stuff like dog headed men and so forth |
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| ▲ | wannabe44 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| So there are myths about wolf men which are now considered to be evidence of some sort of wolf ritual. |
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| ▲ | npc99 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| well if a bunch of other stuff he said that ppl thought was false turned out to be true, why not that too lol |
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| ▲ | alephnerd 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| How much of that is just literary flourish. |
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| ▲ | nemo 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | Herodotus was an early kind of historian, in the context in which he was relating his histories he was as much an entertainer as much as a historian so he repeated every fun and weird story he heard. He did qualify the dog-headed men specifically as a thing he had heard in a ironic Greek tone, he was relating an entertaining tale, not trying to persuade you that dog-headed men really exist. | | |
| ▲ | QuantumNomad_ 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | A human body with a canine head. My guy Herodotus wasn’t telling tall tales at all, he was merely giving accounts of some of the very first furry conventions. These “dog-headed” men were wearing fursuits! |
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