The Deceptive Mechanisms

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History, by its very nature, will always have a degree of unreliability because it's coming from people with certain biases and at times even agendas. I guess to answer your question in a nutshell though, I'd say I trust most documents that were definitely written by the true author and it's not a pseudo-graphic work of that author.

In your mind, did Livy write "History of Rome"? Were Tacitus' "Annals" written by Tacitus? Did Suetonius author "Lives of the Twelve Caesars"? While we're at it, was "Antiquities of the Jews" written by Josephus?

Yes, yes, yes and yes