[Harmless Teddy Bear]

But modern historians have been hard-pressed to believe this and other accounts of the tyrant's despotic excesses, sexual perversity and sadism.
"It's very hard to evaluate all these scurrilous stories," Trimble said. "He's been condemned in memory as a lunatic and a really bad emperor."

I can never understand why historians with no actual facts persist in trying to re-write history and call those who recorded it liars.

It is like they honestly believe that people sat around and made things up.

Transference maybe?

[garbanzo]

It is like they honestly believe that people sat around and made things up.

Well consider some of the ancient sources to be the CNNs,BBCs, and Michael Moore's of their day.