Storytelling developed with the function of entertaining, instilling moral values and entrenching cultural identity, while history entails an analysis of past events, often with an element of objectivity. ... Nevertheless, the inclusion of puppet characters, to which Herodotus exports voices of dissenting judgment, is a necessary narrative device for the transmittance of historical fact in the Histories. ...

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