As was correctly pointed out by someone above, winners write history. But they do more than that. In antiquity they decided which history got saved and which was allowed to vanish either through the violence of book-burning xtian mobsters or simply neglecting to copy works which were of no interest to them. The comment of Photius of Constantinople about the history of Justas of Tiberias is telling. A writer whose history covered the same time frame as Josephus' but it did not have the advantage of a xtian forgery about the godboy. Hence Photius denounced it and it was not copied.
Not book-burning but the effect is the same.
Not book-burning but the effect is the same.
Robert G. Ingersoll : “No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.”
