Original sentence: Despite being written in the Ionic dialect, it is not generally, and has not been since a time before the publication of books, considered to be the work of Herodotus and therefore according to current scholarly conventions the author merits the name "Pseudo-Herodotus.The invalidation of the author's stated identity threatens to disqualify the work's entire project, including all of the biographical claims made by the author about Homer.What, if anything, within the work can be retained in light of the author's apparent illegitimacy is a question that has been debated throughout classical scholarship
Edited sentence: Even though written in the Ionic dialect, it is not generally, and has not been since a time before the publication of books, considered to be the work of Herodotus and therefore according to current scholarly conventions the author merits the name "Pseudo-Herodotus.He has been caught not in an error but a lie, and if he lied about the authorship, how can any credibility be extended to the  content of the narrative.The conclusion that this Herodotus is really Pseudo-Herodotus places the narrator in an ethically and epistemologically reprehensible position