There is no truth or lie. The story can be read as a novel.

And the three professions that narrate, history, novel, journalistic story, make mutual loans or are capable of coming together in a hybrid genre. Herodotus has gone down in posterity as the first of the historians, but in reality he was much more than that. He meticulously and methodically recorded everything he saw and heard. History, novel and mythology are then the same thing because the borders of the world are diffuse and distant, and that mist of unknown distance creates doubt, wonder and mystery.