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@RickiTarr@beige.party well this IS the big one in a sense because even if all those legends about Odysseus were in fact legendary, there still actually was a Troy and a Trojan War and some fragmentary evidence for the existence of at least a few of the heroes named. And as for the Odyssey at least all the places named are real. To call it "fantasy" is, I think, incorrect. Fantasy is a relatively recent invention and it's not proper to apply that word to literary forms of an utterly different nature. Sticking "fantasy" on a work of incredibly durable oral tradition? For hundreds of years before it was formally committed to writing? That's no fantasy.