The histories prior to Alexander, which were based on oral
accounts current among the people, were put together later on. There are great discrepancies
among them, and certainly they can never hold their own against Holy Writ. It
is an accepted fact among historians themselves that these histories were
compiled after Alexander, and that prior to his time history was transmitted by
word of mouth. Note how extremely confused was the history of Greece, so much
so that to this day there is no agreement on the dates related to the life of
Homer, Greece’s far-famed poet. Some even maintain that Homer never existed at
all, and that the name is a fabrication. - ‘Abdu’l-Bah (From a Tablet;
‘Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks”; Online Baha’i Reference Library,
Baha’i World Centre)
