[BMCDA]

We have third-party references for the Greek guys. All we have are the Gospels for Jesus. We don't even have any Roman records of his existence, and the Romans kept track of everything -- especially folks who caused enough trouble to be crucified.

And we also take their more extraordinary claims with quite a load of salt. For instance no one believes that Romulus ascended to heaven to become a god as Livius wrote in his Ab Urbe Condita.

[ToryHeartland]

And we also take their more extraordinary claims with quite a load of salt.

As a recovering classical philologist, I must pedantically point out that we actually take such claims cum grano salis