Fun aspect of ancient history is when you look for political or cultural accounts the historians all say "no one can really say if this took place, or if this guy really existed, but we know that around this time a person may have instituted a policy of some sort that might have ..." and then when they're talking about a battle suddenly the detail level skyrockets and its like "thirteen guys moved in on the left, it was drizzly out, this spearman was left-handed, he ordered them to flank on the right and then changed his mind a few seconds later..." etc. Its the historical version of intuiting an artists fetish by how hyper-detailed the feet are in an otherwise totally normal drawing
if you knock the teeth out of the mouth of a Don Bluth character and plant them in the ground, a fully armed and trained legion of soldiers with Strong Opinions about fetish artists will spring from the earth.