About the work

A closer look.

You send one claim you half-believe: a myth, a legend, an "ancient" saying, a line on a poster, a fact from a novel or a game. One line is enough. Want to fact check a myth, verify a legend, or check an ancient or historical claim? That is exactly this work, run at the primary source. Back comes one brief: what the primary text actually says, quoted, with the source named and dated; where the modern version came from and when it first appears; and what cannot be traced, said plainly. I read the source whole. If the oldest layer is older than the telling you know, you get both. If the story is real but the version everyone repeats is a century old, you get the split. If I cannot find a source, that is the answer, and you don't pay. Worked, mine: the Underworld's attested daughters. Two only. One is a single line in a 10th-century Byzantine dictionary ("Death. A daughter of Haides."); the other a single Orphic hymn. Every other "daughter of Hades" is later invention. I read both in full and marked where the record stops. First answer free, in messages: I tell you what the source says before you pay. Then 48 hours, one revision.