correctly observes that historians of antiquity in general regularly admit “harmonization” as one legitimate solution to evidence that at first glance appears contradictory. Individual points of view of the respective historians or biographers must be carefully taken into account, “but the object of the exercise is to produce a coherent synthesis which functions as a hypothesis and must be treated as such” (JVG 88).19 But discussions about both the burden of proof and harmonization usually unfold