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@MisterChris
Eh, I think he did.
But you know how it goes,
"History became legend. Legend became myth." - LOTR
Been plenty of people history, but we can't always see them clearly, like statues in the rain, their refined features blur.
Yet are famed enough, that reproductions abound, and what they may have been, 'is.
Or is what exists an idealization?
I think it's too bad when I glance at some older philosophies whether ancient China, or ancient Greece.
Philosopher we only know the nubs and gists of their ways.
"Do you know how many sages have been drowned under the waves of past eras?
Do you know that sagely words were spoken, but history was written?" - Ravages of Time
Still, some histories and words seem reasonably enough preserved.