On the other hand, Émile Legouis has noted, "The marked and yet artless bad taste of the style has thrown doubt on the authorship, yet the play shows signs of having been written by a humanist, for Herodotus is followed step by step, and there are many mythological reminiscences." But it has since been argued that the Herodotean account may have been mediated by a chronicle such as Johann Carion's "Chronica"; a more recent refinement of this theory suggests that Preston used Richard Taverner's 1539 "The Garden of Wysedom", which drew on Carion.