• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Contemporary Roman records are less bullshit

    Didn’t Pliny the Elder include the Basilisk, the Manticore, and the Phoenix in his Natural History?

    Meanwhile, Seneca described the feats of Hercules, the sorcery of Medea, and the plung into the underworld by Oedipus.