> Plato and Plutarch, _in themselves_, are not great evidence for this. Why? That’s more evidence than we have for many other things we ‘know’ about the ancien

> Plato and Plutarch, _in themselves_, are not great evidence for this. Why? That’s more evidence than we have for many other things we ‘know’ about the ancient world. We often have just a single source written down by somebody less reliable than Plutarch or Plato. I mean we’d find something corroborated by two ancients authors sufficient for most other events which weren’t as controversial (purely from a modern perspective)