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A myth is a made-up story. A legend is a traditional story, short on real evidence but held to be true.

The Odyssey is a legend. Some of it is obviously fabricated and embellished, but parts may be true. We can pick a lot of the fabrications, but of the rest we just don't know what might be the true bits.

Things like the Odyssey and Iliad were sung by the bards for hundreds of years before cursive writing was invented, so there is no specific source material and each bard had his own versions, so there were hundreds of variations of the central theme.

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What is true about Paris in the odyssey?

In Homer's "The Odyssey," Paris does not appear as a character. Paris is a character in the Greek myth of the Trojan War, but he is not mentioned in "The Odyssey," which focuses on the journey of Odysseus after the war.


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When does the Trojan War occur in relation to The Odyssey?

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How is the The Odyssey related to the Trojan war?

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When does The Odyssey take place in relation to the Trojan War?

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The Odyssey was related to which war?

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What was the Trojan war myth?

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Who wins the Trojan War in the story The Odyssey?

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What kinds of information did homer provide in the Iliad and odyssey?

the Iliad tells the legend of the Trojan war and the Odyssey tells what happens after the Trojan war.


At the beginning of the odyssey what happen?

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How many years after the Trojan does The Odyssey take place?

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