Tag: Monsters

  • Pards and Manticores – A Medieval Bestiary

    Pards and Manticores – A Medieval Bestiary

    Herodotus the father of history divided knowledge into three types. Things he saw with his own eyes, information people told him which he could verify as true, and things he couldn’t verify and might easily be completely made up. He visited Egypt, and so when he writes about its manners and customs we can be…