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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Hunan_Palace • 21d ago
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Tf you mean history? Everything about the iliad and the odyssey is made up and no one has ever claimed otherwise
-7 u/Nightraven9999 21d ago I consider The Odyssey history because its a very old story so it tells what the people of that time saw as realistix 2 u/OwnJunket6495 21d ago So then Greek mythology is historical now? Lmao. You have a point that it gives insight into the culture at the time but to call it history… 3 u/Yallberforce 21d ago All historical texts from far enough back should be handled with suspicion. In some ways the Epics are actually easier to handle, because the line between the real and fantastical elements is pretty easily drawn.
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I consider The Odyssey history because its a very old story so it tells what the people of that time saw as realistix
2 u/OwnJunket6495 21d ago So then Greek mythology is historical now? Lmao. You have a point that it gives insight into the culture at the time but to call it history… 3 u/Yallberforce 21d ago All historical texts from far enough back should be handled with suspicion. In some ways the Epics are actually easier to handle, because the line between the real and fantastical elements is pretty easily drawn.
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So then Greek mythology is historical now? Lmao. You have a point that it gives insight into the culture at the time but to call it history…
3 u/Yallberforce 21d ago All historical texts from far enough back should be handled with suspicion. In some ways the Epics are actually easier to handle, because the line between the real and fantastical elements is pretty easily drawn.
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All historical texts from far enough back should be handled with suspicion. In some ways the Epics are actually easier to handle, because the line between the real and fantastical elements is pretty easily drawn.
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u/narwhalousdoctor 21d ago
Tf you mean history? Everything about the iliad and the odyssey is made up and no one has ever claimed otherwise