Ancient Maximalism! or ‘What BAR would Publish if it had existed in Antiquity’

I thought I might start a new series of posts over time collecting and blogging about ancient rationalizations about the past.  Our first contender for BAR fame? Palaephatus.  Now Palaephatus wrote in his introduction to his work Περὶ ἀπίστων: Now some people, who have no acquaintance with philosophy or science, are too credulous and believe [...]