My friend asked me why we have to pick ancient historians apart

We do, unless there is good reason to do otherwise.

Aliens built the great pyramids. I'm a historian so its true.

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>Pompey got rid of literally every single pirate in the Mediterranean
Totally plausible

>Timur the Lame built pyramids out of the skulls of his victims which were so massive they were confused for hills when seen from a distance
Could have happened

>Nero had feasts where the dining room was illuminated by Christians burning to death
What's wrong with that/

>This one Empress back in the early middle ages was kind of a slut
LITERALLY FANFICTION 2016 BELIEVING PROCOPIUS WOW ANON HOW CAN YOU FALL FOR SUCH OBVIOUS BAIT?

>>1926683
Because humans fall under two categories. Conscious liars, and subconscious liars.

>>1926829
Are you consciously or subconsciously lying when you say that?

>>1926755
>HOW CAN YOU FALL FOR SUCH OBVIOUS BAIT?
probably because the same dude wrote two completely contradictory histories about the same people

>>1926755
because most byzzieboos are literal manchild whose feelings are hurt whenever someone mentions how shit their empire actually was

>>1926877
one is a state sponsored propaganda and one is titled the secret history

>>1926683
Because historians often copied each other, wrote stuff down centuries after it had happened, relied on hearsay and so on. Besides, literature is not the only source material available to us and archaeological, numismatic, epigraphical, etc. evidence sometimes does not back up an author our disproves them.