Originally posted by psstein
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And his claim that female lions only give birth to a single cub in their lives because the cub rips apart their womb clawing their way out of it in order to be born was mocked by the ancient Greeks such as Aristotle:
Aristotle also ridiculed Herodotus (who he called "the story-teller") for claiming that fish reproduced, not by copulating, but by swallowing silt.
During the Hellenistic period, after the Greeks became much more familiar with places like Egypt and Persia, Herodotus was popular but primarily as a target of satire and ridicule as it seemed to become a requirement of anyone who traveled to disprove this or that claim of his.
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