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>"The ancient historians, like Herodotos, that recorded Khufu, mention that he was a fierce and stern ruler." >"These accounts are from over 2,000 years after
by ugh123 4y ago
>"The ancient historians, like Herodotos, that recorded Khufu, mention that he was a fierce and stern ruler."
>"These accounts are from over 2,000 years after Khufu lived, however, so we might not be able to believe them."
I thought that second sentence was an unnecessary take.
- motoxpro 4y agoI thought it provided context for the first sentence. I was glad it was there.
- yamtaddle 4y agoA lot of readers probably don't have a rough idea of how old many of the major Ancient Egyptian monumental works were by the time the Greek Classical period began and we started getting a substantial amount of surviving Western literature outside monumental inscriptions and tax records and stuff like that.