> They made a claim which I personally do not believe, although someone else might - that as they were sailing around Libya they had the sun on their right. I

> They made a claim which I personally do not believe, although someone else might - that as they were sailing around Libya they had the sun on their right. I love this about Herodotus. He takes the accounts he's given and records them as they were given to him, without editorializing the parts which seem in-credible. It often leads to fanciful stories, as another commentator mentioned, they get more fanciful the more indirectly they are sourced - but they also mean that no information is lost. In this case, the unbelievable information he left in the account becomes the information that lends it credibility.