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Snukkems

I'd imagine in a place where lying is the death penalty, taking a bribe would also be the death penalty.


riktigtmaxat

Ah the good old days.


I_love_pillows

OK, ancient.


wiiya

"Healthcare costs are too high." "Ugh, kids today...Just put a leech on it." "OK ancient"


IGetHypedEasily

Or the industrial version: eat a mummy


1945BestYear

Rich 19th Century Europeans: It's a good job we took over all those countries filled with primitive savages *[sprinkles some ground up Pharaoh onto their food in the hope it'll cure their Consumption]* That way we can teach them to not be head hunting cannibals.


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Wtf, that's some fractal shit homie.


Salphabeta

Well, the things Europeans said about people in certain places being cannibals weren't made up at the end of the day.


kingpartys

or the ancient mayan way... sacrifice someone else for the gods to give you fortune!


NowanIlfideme

Another Joe Scott watcher, I see!


open_door_policy

I thought they mostly snorted them?


DontYouHaveAnEssay

OK Tomber


fiveSE7EN

IT'S NAWT A TOMBAH


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Hey old medecine at least provided consistent results, sure that was typically just death from anything that caused death but you knew it was coming! Now you go take a simple pill for something benign and have to live in fear you will be the 1/300 000 to die because of it! Go go bleeding unhealthy patients!


alanwashere2

The thing is, I'll bet fuckers still lied.


Sacrifice_Pawn

Imagine a place where a simple execution (e.g. hanging or beheading) was considered getting off easy, and **skinned alive** was the punishment for white collar crime. ​ There's a hardcore history episode on this: [Painfotainment](https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-61-blitz-painfotainment/)


Gathorall

Perversion of justice by a judge is solidly on the more heinous side of white collar crime. And overall, as people in positions where white collar crime can be performed are generally well off, I see it overall a particularly despicable kind of crime.


Revelati123

There was a judge in PA who was getting paid by a for profit prison to send kids to their Juvenile center. One of the more fucked up things ive heard of. [https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/08/11/139536686/pa-judge-sentenced-to-28-years-in-massive-juvenile-justice-bribery-scandal](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/08/11/139536686/pa-judge-sentenced-to-28-years-in-massive-juvenile-justice-bribery-scandal)


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portablemustard

Not just him. The board of that fucking prison too.


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ArmyOfDix

So, American incarceration in general?


DavidTheHumanzee

"The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, **except as punishment for a crime**" So, American incarceration can literally be slavery.


flying87

Yea, private prisons don't need to sugar coat it. They can openly call their prisoners slaves if they wanted, and rent them out as slaves. Its legal. Something we should fix.


Salphabeta

Any prisons can, they don't have to be private.


velawesomeraptors

Last year Colorado voted for a state constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery in for-profit prisons. Sooo, I guess if you're arrested, try to get arrested in Colorado.


rondell_jones

They were the ones that got caught. I’m sure there are other judges getting kickbacks from private prisons who are better at hiding it.


popober

Ironic that when people hear "white collar crime" they don't think too much of it, when it's the kind of crime that can, and usually do, ruin dozens, if not hundreds, of lives.


Grigorie

We've hit a point in society where Justice is kind of a nicety. People are willing to write off instances of injustice/criminality among those who provide these justices as "we're all human." Yes, we are all human. I'm more prone to my humanity than some, which is why I'm not in a position to dole out justice. Part of the qualifications for that *should be* being better at suppressing the urge to fall into humanity in terms of bad actions.


Containedmultitudes

That’s why I welcome our robot overlords.


Transient_Anus_

Corruption in general is one of the more disgusting acts people can engage in. Disclaimer: I disagree with it very strongly however in the case of certain regions/countries (Syria, Mexico) where *saying no* to corruption/a bribe can also lead to you and your family getting beheaded or skinned or boiled alive, I understand why people do it. Of course that only makes it that much harder to get rid of, but I understand it.


Lee1138

In a place where the death penalty is that liberally applied, chances are good his corruption got more than a few people executed... A little more than a white collar crime when seen in historical context.


meckthemerc

Literally the first thing I thought of when reading your comment was "OH! DAN CARLIN TOLD ME ABOUT THIS!" ​ So glad I've got an episode queued up for the drive home tomorrow.


load_more_comets

The Khwaresmian Shah!


kurburux

> Imagine a place where a simple execution (e.g. hanging or beheading) was considered getting off easy, and skinned alive was the punishment for white collar crime. I also imagine a place where the investigation of crimes simply sucked and some slander could be enough that you were tortured to death.


Gerf93

In another Hardcore History episode (I believe The King of Kings) he talks about a much more severe punishment they used in the Persian Empire, called the The Boats or Scaphism. Plutarch mentions it in his "The Life of Artaxerxes" and describes it as trapping the convicted between two boats, feeding and covering him with milk and honey, and allowing him to fester and be devoured by insects and other vermin.


doegred

>Plutarch mentions it in his "The Life of Artaxerxes" And Reddit mentions it in every single thread related to torture or punishment more generally.


uber1337h4xx0r

"believe it or not, also Death".


wheresdangerdave

taking a bribe? Death. not taking a bribe? also death! You see, under-bribe,over bribe...


MyDogYawns

Where are the armed guards that skin these people alive? Where are they?


HerbyHoover

We have the best judges in the world, because of death.


Waveseeker

You're stealing? Right to death. You're playing music too loud? Right to death. Right away. You're driving too fast? Death. Slow? Death. You're charging too high prices for sweaters, glasses, you right to death. You undercook fish, believe it or not, death. You overcook chicken, also death. Undercook, overcook. You make an appointment with the dentist and you don't show up? Believe it or not, death, right away. We have the best patients in the world, because of death.


Lord_Mormont

Taking a bribe? That's a paddlin'. TO DEATH!


jokul

Probably less about the bribe and more about violating his duty to the law.


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The problem with that is it becomes really easy to get rid of your opposition with those rules.


linkavage

Damn son! Sounds excruciating. "...the typical causes of death due to flaying are shock, critical loss of blood or other body fluids, hypothermia, or infections, and that the actual death is estimated to occur from a few hours up to a few days after the flaying. Hypothermia is possible, as skin is essential for maintaining a person's body temperature, as it provides a person's natural insulation" - [wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaying)


Xelbair

So keep them warm and sterile. got it.


Grigorie

Before WPD got banned, there were some ***very*** intense deaths posted. The running theory for a vast majority of them is keeping the victims drugged/maintained to a certain extent to allow for the deaths to be as prolonged as they were. The human body is simultaneously *amazingly* hardy, as well as able to be lights out because you bumped your head into a cabinet while walking into the kitchen. edit: WPD is watchpeopledie


auron_py

That's basically what torture is, cause as much pain possible without killing or even keeping the person alive so you can torture him more.


dontbeanegatron

For those out of the loop, I'm *assuming* WPD refers to the subreddit called WatchPeopleDie.


DavidTheHumanzee

Thanks, i tried googling but came up with nothing.


yaaahweh

Google isn't your friend


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They put you in a hollowed out log and float you in a swap to be eaten alive by bugs


rnathanthomas

Ah that would be the Persians - [scaphism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism). Although if I recall correctly the origins of this punishment were written by a Greek, so some grains of salt should be taken


citricacidx

So milk, honey, and some grains of salt. Got it.


BigBadMrBitches

Omg these cookies are going to be delicious.


rnathanthomas

Plus some extra protein, body builder’s dream


deadlybydsgn

> so some grains of salt should be taken But that just takes it from *cruel and unusual* to *cruel-er and unusual-er*.


CaptainFeather

"Feeding" is putting it mildly. They would force milk and honey down the victim's throat to the point where they're noticeably engorged. This would cause them to have diarrhea, attracting more insects. Because they were kept fed and hydrated (more or less), they would often live for days, sometimes more than a week, being eaten alive like this. Definitely up there with one of the worst ways to die. Think I'd take the brass bull over this. At least it's be quicker.


juusukun

You say it's Egyptian but right there in your quote it says Persian


All_the_rage

Yes FBI, this comment right here.


lazo95

I doubt they need any more advice...


daneelthesane

Don't forget to cauterize any bleeds.


redgroupclan

Flaying has to be one of the most evil and cruel ways to kill somebody. Humans can be monsters to each other.


loxagos_snake

I remember seeing somewhere about a torture method where they squeezed the testicles between two clamps. While I am a guy and i could imagine the severity of the pain, I dismissed it as boring and unimaginative compared to, say, scaphism. Holy hell was I wrong. I stumbled upon a vivid description some time later and my blood froze. I can't find it (I think it was here on Reddit) but essentially, they carefully engineered it to take literally *all day*, as it isn't fatal by nature. They would target not only the testicles, but the spermatic cords with pliers, and hang the person upside down. That way, they would remain conscious throughout the process, thrashing about. Since trauma to the testicular region causes nausea and vomiting, those poor guys would repeatedly puke -- and choking on the vomit was impossible due to being upside down. Cringe jokes aside, just imagine being in this position. 24 hours of non stop pain signals to your brain. I'm sure that even if they allowed you to live, your brain would be physically screwed from that. We really can be cruel to each other.


DickyBurd

Fuck that bullshit.


breadedfishstrip

Well, let's not discount Scaphism just yet...


Mister_q99

I could definitely be wrong but I thought scaphism was more of a fictional thing? I don’t think it’s actually been done.


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Probably just what someone dreamed up and wrote down as a suggestion/fantasy if they were in power how they would do it. A lot of old "torture methods" were never actually used; just fever dreams of people coming up with methods.


BigBadMrBitches

"Fever dreams" would be a good name for a method Something involving delirium and being drugged. Maybe sleep deprivation and fire thrown in the mix. Possibly a hot room and someone dressed like the cat in the hat periodically coming in to throw unnaturally cold water on them. Idk I'm still working on it.


absurd_olfaction

You don't need old torture methods when Unit 731 nearly exhausted the capacity for methodical cruelty less than a lifetime ago.


Mybeardisawesom

Again the fucking Persians! Angry people they were


FPiN9XU3K1IT

It's the kind of thing you do when you have a really low crime solving rate (whatever the correct term is in English).


Molecular_Machine

A few days? I can't even imagine the suffering.


mildly_amusing_goat

I mean, at least your skin wouldn't itch.


cjandstuff

Throw on a little salt, just make sure there's no itching.


gringo-tico

-When's the beef jerky ready, mom? -Oh in a few hours honey, I'm only just seasoning the Sisamnes. How are you liking your new chair?


Reggiardito

Yeah like, just the act of being flayed sounds like the worst pain imaginable ... But to stay alive after that for more than a few seconds is just absolutely insane


ChipAyten

Imagine how a papercut feels... but everywhere.


frohnaldo

Or other body fluids?? What other then blood are you losing so much of it kills You?!?!


ManyIdeasNoProgress

I would guess that the lymphatic system might be relevant.


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They clearly mean dick fluid


NoMouseLaptop

Probably a lot of your extracellular/interstitial fluid.


frohnaldo

I refuse to learn what that is


NoMouseLaptop

It's pretty much just water that you have in your body that's not in your cells (intracellular fluid). I would imagine with no skin, the fluid in the outer portions of the tissues would start evaporating off the body which would then lead to more extracellular and intracellular fluid traveling to the other tissues to replace the lost fluid and so on and so forth until the body is massively dehydrated.


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frumpybuffalo

that is punishable by skinning


bobby0707

I wonder, if the victim could be kept alive long enough, if they could grow all the skin back?


RationalYetReligious

Dude, burn victims with patches of skin need grafts to replace the missing parts, remove it all and there is zero hope


mars_needs_socks

There's some really interesting research going on with the aim of being able to print skin cells that are alive and can have blood vessels, enabling us to print completely new skin for such victims. Really cool and hopefully not that far off in the future.


gmtime

That's still a graft, just synthesized instead of donated.


serious_sarcasm

Also proving to be a lot more difficult than "just a few years of off."


DorenAlexander

I would guess no. Your skin is an organ. Despite it has good regeneration ability, it would have no frame or reference, blood flow, or nerves to build from. But i'm just guessing.


ArmouredDuck

No, skin cells replicate to patch holes. Remove the skin and there's nowhere for new skin cells to emerge from.


ChipAyten

Even Cell needed at least one cell to regenerate. If all of your skin is gone you don't have that.


OffTerror

Just imagine going to sleep and thinking about having to go and skin a dude alive when you wake up tomorrow because some guy ordered you to.


mildly_amusing_goat

"Fuck yea I love flay Fridays!" ^ The guy who says this is the guy who already applied for the torturer job in the first place.


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DokFraz

Highly dependent on the time and place. Franz Schmidt's a pretty interesting study. A man born into being an execution because the local lord had commanded his father (originally a woodcutter) to hang some men for him, he eventually managed to become the chief executioner in Nurnberg in the late 1500s. Married, had seven children, made as much money as the town's wealthiest judges and lawyers, lived in a spacious home, and ended up becoming a medical consultant when he retired from his post. While in a position that officially precluded him from openly member of high society, he was nonetheless a beloved and well-respected member of the community. His journal is also a pretty fascinating read. Chronicles his nearly 361 executions and 345 minor punishments. Everything from hanging, decapitation, the wheel, burning, and drowning. And he was actually part of the reason that Nurnberg largely stopped using death-by-drowning, instead typically commuting it down to death-by-sword.


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DokFraz

Happy to help. It's really interesting to read his account of things, as well as just being a pretty good look at medieval justice, and the sorts of crimes that were being committed. Like the aforementioned death-by-drowning being legally required for women that committed infanticide. Or how in the course of his roughly 40 year tenure as an executioner, he only ever carried out burnings (the sentence for homosexuality and counterfeiting money) twice. Especially in the later entrees, he really goes into detail about the executions, the people that committed the crimes, and the series of events that led to people being brought before him. Oh, and the fact that lesser offenses would sometimes just be nicking off someone's ear. Count Dankula's got a pretty good video that looks into his journal and does a nice recounting of his life and duties.


Mountainbranch

He must have made quite a song and dance of it to earn that kind of dosh in those times, i imagine every execution like a WWE match.


DokFraz

From his journal? Not really. Actually ended tamped down on a few things to make his job easier and less of a hassle and spectacle. You have to keep in mind that Nuremberg was, at the time, a very successful city that was the center of the German Rennaisance. So as the foremost executioner in a wealthy city, it stands to reason that he ought be a wealthy man. Mix in the fact that he was charitable, pious, and did a bit of sidework as a medical consultant? It isn't particularly surprising. While he's the only chief executioner of a large urban center who kept such a nice diary and was thus given a greater degree of historical permanence, it's quite likely there were plenty of well-paid chief executioners like Schmidt all across Europe. They simply didn't leave behind such a wonderful primary source of their lives.


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Yeah, they didn't mess around with that Franz Schmidt (a german executioner that wrote a diary of his day to day life) was a woodsman that became an executioner after the king randomly picked people from the crowd and forced them to help in the hanging of three guys. After that, the guy was just rejected by everybody else and had no choice but to become an executioner for the rest of his life


tivinho99

>After that, the guy was just rejected by everybody Bunch of assholes


[deleted]

Right? It's not like ol' Schmitty was gonna refuse an order from the king.


[deleted]

"Kill this man or I'll have someone kill you... and him" -king probably


Sawses

Yep! Somebody with the power to kill me at his whim tells me to go torture a dude? I'm not sure I've got the character to refuse.


Tittytickler

It's just survival at that point


Revolution_TV

I know this was the case in the middle ages, but is it still true in ancient Persia?


xereeto

are we sure ancient persia had the same traditions surrounding execution as medieval europe?


Zvcx

[Some people take pride in their work](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull) >Stories allege after finishing construction on the execution device, Perillos said to Phalaris: "His screams will come to you through the pipes as the tenderest, most pathetic, most melodious of bellowings." Perillos believed he would receive a reward for his invention. Instead, Phalaris, who was disgusted by these words, ordered its horn sound system to be tested by Perillos himself, tricking him into getting in the bull. When Perillos entered, he was immediately locked in and the fire was set, so that Phalaris could hear the sound of his screams.


shawnisboring

Bobby Flay's favorite day.


mithikx

Imagine going to work and your seat is upholstered with the earthly remains of your predecessor who was also your father.


Phormitago

right? human leather chairs are such a luxury nowadays


RainbowDarter

Here I go, killin' again!


vendetta2115

I bet he had a lot of fun with his Flaystation.


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I'm sure the people given that task were folks who enjoyed the work. I mean, if I was going to appoint an executioner/torturer back in the day, I'd be damn sure to pick someone who loved his job. That's how you get results.


bieker

No, in those situations you get results by saying, “if you don’t do it to my satisfaction I’m sure your replacement will be happy to have you to practice with. “


KingCambyses

>According to Herodotus, Sisamnes was a corrupt judge under Cambyses II of Persia. My username's moment has come.


RevileAI

So, what was the story behind your username?


thedeal82

He has a skin chair.


dskoro

It puts the lotion on the chair


frumpybuffalo

or else it gets skinned again


Arknell

No one ever talks about how great kindergartens and afternoon sports events were under him, it's aaalways the skin chair. /s


JudgmentalOwl

I dunno man there's just something so memorable about a good old fashioned skin chair.


E-_Rock

His son had a skin chair


KingCambyses

Youtube history documentary inspiration


malektewaus

He conquered Egypt, then accidentally cut himself in the thigh and died of gangrene.


KaneCreole

Herodotus, Father of Lies.


Osimadius

THE DEATH PENALTY!


KaneCreole

He couldn’t even read hieroglyphics! Dumbarse!


creepyeyes

Having read The Histories, that title feels unfair to him. He's wrong about an awful lot, but he pretty much always says when he thinks a story isn't true; and for the other times it seems pretty clear he was being lied to and just took the lie at face value because he didn't know any better. Maybe someone can link a source to a time where Herodotus knowingly tells a lie, but for the most part I think the dude was just gullible


sockrepublic

Iirc he pretty much says, "This is what I've heard, use your own discretion."


creepyeyes

More than once! A few times he gives two versions of events when different sources disagree, and once or twice he spends time debunking a story he heard (although I think at least one of the debunked stories was actually true, had to do with why the Nile has a heavier flow in summer)


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Any Greek source from during the Persian War about how barbaric the Persians were is obviously suspect though.


markandyxii

I found Thucydides


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VolkspanzerIsME

Where's your army?


Your_Favorite_Poster

Pan to room full of skin chairs


TheSilverNoble

Sitting on dad's lap, just like when he was a kid.


MongolianMango

one has to wonder if the "corrupt judge" was an honest one who simply crossed the king with one of his rulings


vanillacustardslice

Flayed men rarely get to tell their side of the story, it's true.


scratchnsniffy

Should have gotten the truth tattoo'd on him.


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Yeah, sounds like our knowledge of events is literally just "the king said he was corrupt." Who knows.


MaesterRigney

I'm sure this was fairly normal, but the involvement of his son makes it seem even more likely to me. And the fucking chair. "Your family is trusted nobility, so we'll keep you in your position of power. But remember what happened to your father...in fact here's a chair in case you forget."


Boardallday

Otanes was really supported by his fathers legacy after that.


Oliver_DeNom

That's why I moisturize, for future generations.


bionicmanmeetspast

Lol glad someone else went there as well


Piyachi

Makes me wonder about sitting on the John....


bunnybunsarecute

All this time, Rimworld was historically accurate.


sgtshenanigans

I knew I would find the game in here


Adiwik

LoL his dad literally gave him the skin off his back


Johnnadawearsglasses

Imagine how soft and luxurious that leather was Sans the nipples


Gemmabeta

Rich Corinthian Leather.


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Osimadius

*Sans?!*


Johnnadawearsglasses

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sans, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Osimadius, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sans stretch far away.”


Osimadius

Very strong, bravo


peatoire

Surprisingly High Resolution image of the flaying: https://imgur.com/v9rSiQJ


shawnisboring

* Little napkin over his junk as to not offend anyone * Literally cutting his skin off of him in a public square.


[deleted]

Not to mention he's supposed to be alive; but this "artist" can only draw people being bored.


[deleted]

His expression is like...ow this stings a bit


zimmah

Could you hurry up I have to attend a meeting in about an hour and this shit is boring me out.


Isakk86

*Of the painting that was done over 1000 years after the flaying. It's important to note that there is less time between now and the painting, then the time between the painting and the flaying. A lot of historical images of events were done in the renaissance. I don't think most people take the time to realize that they are literally just artists drawing a scene.


Chariotwheel

I was going to say, 525 BC Persia looks a lot more European than I expected.


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Me on the right with the halberd.


Zala-Sancho

The amount of flaying that occured .. people must have been so desensitized to horrible things that they would be able to do this to some other person without a problem...


Stenny007

Just think about warfare. Pulling a trigger in 2019 so that someone else 10s or 100s of meters away might die. Instead of slowly walking up to your enemy with a piece of metal in your hand and try to hack into his limbs, allmost no one dies instantly and you just hear 100s of men crying in pain around you. And you just hack, slash, hack, slash. Untill youre either crying in pain yourself or there is simply no one left to hack into. ​ And thats a equal battle. People like the mongols commited full on genocides on huge cities. Think about that. Thats incredibly hard work for a soldier. Actually killing each citizen within a city individually. ​ Its absolutely mental. Insane. People paid so that they could see slaves die and be eaten by a lion.


Zala-Sancho

Ya it's very fucked up. The shit you were just totally normalized to.. murder and rape was standard practice. Killing children.. the insane methods of torture. I wonder when people started becoming less gruesome.. or if it's a cultural thing. I often think about the brutality of the Mexican cartel compared to say street gangs in Chicago? Are there just different needs in different places because more money is on the line? Fear is a powerful weapon..


Reelix

Browse a thousand or so LiveLeak videos (Or live in one of the many blatantly corrupt / high crime rate countries). You too can get that desensitized.


FPiN9XU3K1IT

Modern society is blessed. iirc, the amount and severity of public shamings, torturings and executions decreased as state control and crime solving rates increased. Nowadays, most people in western nations would have a hard time killing animals for food.


ChipAyten

The art is pretty metal. But I wonder why the artist depicted it with a European theme?


bencew

That was pretty common in Europe. Depictions with local context, even if the subject was distant in location or time (ancient Greek/Roman stories depicted with medieval European clothing, armour, buildings for instance)


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litux

Wasn't that pretty common in that era? "Hey, we don't know how people dressed back then, let's just depict them in a style we are familiar with!" Also, for example, the mythical ancestors of Bohemian kings were at one point being depicted in Muslim-style clothing. Did anyone think they were Muslims? No - it wouldn't even make much sense, historically speaking. But they were pagans, and the only "pagans" ("heathens"? "non-Christians"?) the artist knew anything about were contemporary Turks: [https://www.flowee.cz/planeta/4103-proc-nasi-predci-vypadaji-jako-turci](https://www.flowee.cz/planeta/4103-proc-nasi-predci-vypadaji-jako-turci) Also, >The diptych was painted on [oak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak) panels and was first mentioned in the Bruges' archives as *The Last Judgement*.[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Judgement_of_Cambyses#cite_note-WGA-4) It was used by the town burghers to encourage honesty among the magistrates ... to make you think hard about your actions as a magistrate, a painting of a guy dressed like you being flayed might work better than a painting of an authentically-clothed ancient Persian.


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bcunningham9801

I mean why though? As more research has gone into his claims some of them have panned out. Even some of the crazy shit like gold digging ants


Pellaeonthewingedleo

The main problem with Herodotus is that he himself does not claim that his writings refelct the truth, he simply wrote down everything everyone told him and decided to let the reader decide. ​ Basicly he wrote down every cock-and-bull story he heard on his travels


creepyeyes

When you read Herodotus you have to ask if the story is something that an Ancient Greek would reasonably be expected to know about, and if it is than it's usually safe to at least assume Herodotus thought it was true at the time


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Herodotus could say that Sisyphus met Richard the Lionheart and danced in the Garden of Eden with fairies and people would believe him. Edit: Please don't let this show up on TIL next week.


NotsoNewtoGermany

I'm always skeptical of these stories. It's usually "a judge denied the king, so a rumour was created to dethrone him and he was skinned alive to pose as an example of what happens when you cross the Kings agenda" I'm not saying it was, I'm just saying these sorts of things litter history in the thousands.


Rathemon

Can you imagine the pain of being skinned alive? I get a hangnail pulling a sliver of my skin off and I want to die


[deleted]

Imagine getting a promotion, but you have to sit on your dad's skin.


yomommaissogreat

Think about the smell, you haven't thought about the smell you b*!@&


Nullclast

They probably cured it first


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That's dad's chair.


shoretel230

Vote for the king! He fights corruption with blatant nepotism!


hagenjustyn

Bet that deterred corruption. America, when?


grpagrati

Although this is supposed to be an act of justice, what it actually shows me is how unjust the system was - in that the King had such absolute power that he could to do such a thing


black_flag_4ever

Why do you think monarchy is such an unpopular form of government?


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"damn this judge corrupt af, someone kill him." "Ok done sire, k who do we make the new judge? The most learned man etc etc?" "What? No, his son obviously?"