September 10, 2007 10:25AM
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MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> This makes sense to me, Hermione.
> So much so that I regard it as probably the
> closest to what actually happened.
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With all due respect to Hermione, what she has presented here is a speculation ... nothing more than a fictionalized account of what might have happened. It has no evidence to support it, and is being offered as one possible scenario for explaining a difference in texts. In fact, the "difference in the text" may not even have ever existed, as we have no evidence to show the specific text provided by Herodotus was wrong.
In other words, it is an explanation for an event for which we have ZERO evidence of it having actually occurred. It's like asking "How many faeries can dance on the head of a pin?"
To claim it is "the closest to what actually happened" is horrendously sloppy methodology.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.
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