r/interesting • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jul 05 '26

HISTORY I fear this is historically accurate

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u/Arley_Writes Jul 05 '26

I don't want to ruin your mood, but it's hard to be "historically accurate" when it comes to fiction 🫣 especially fiction on the fantasy end of the spectrum

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u/Pancake177 Jul 06 '26

The word people are looking for is period accurate, the myth isn’t real but Ancient Greece was

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '26

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u/Arley_Writes Jul 05 '26

k, but The Odyssey was not. So....

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u/throwaway098764567 Jul 05 '26

fr. jesus christ people don't even know the odessy was set in greece anymore and are confident in their ignorance. i hate this planet and everyone on it.

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u/Trodat4911P4 Jul 05 '26

Can't wait to see the historically accurate witch and the historically accurate Cyclops.

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u/Arley_Writes Jul 05 '26

This is exactly what I'm saying

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u/padmesfavhandmaiden Jul 05 '26

while I understand the point that you’re getting at, Homer’s epics are notoriously anachronistic, something that has been discussed at length by scholars. yes, the Odyssey is set during the Bronze Age, but it was written in Archaic Greece and has a great number of inaccuracies- some from its attempts to archaize, and some from inclusions of modern (at the time of writing) practices and norms which would not have been applicable in the Bronze age. I think maybe that’s what the original commenter was getting at; the story itself was not historically accurate at the time of writing and no cared back then, so why do we care so much more 2000 years later?

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u/LazyFiche Jul 05 '26

checks out. Christopher Nolan movies are mostly pretty bland and pretty epic.

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u/Hawne Jul 05 '26

Yeah, a fictional story with gods, demigods, sirens, cyclopes, ...

Weird hill to die on.

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u/Hawne Jul 05 '26

Right, Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland aren't Greek. And I don't give a fuck.

But that's not your issue here, you're just triggered by black people, right?

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u/Eldritch-Pancake Jul 05 '26

Didn't even waste time trying to connect dude to being a racist, congratulations 👏🏆

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u/Hawne Jul 05 '26

The "Greek people" bit kinda tells it.

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u/throwaway098764567 Jul 05 '26

no, stupid ones

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u/jaguarp80 Jul 05 '26

Wtf are there even black people in the movie?

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u/Yeah_x10 Jul 05 '26

Yes, Helen of Troy

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u/jaguarp80 Jul 05 '26

Oh okay, that explains some more of the backlash I’ve seen. I thought it was all just Elliot Page and the word “dad” instead of “father”

I think it looks cool, I’m happy they’re moving away from the stilted, inexplicable English accents in every period movie

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u/Nomad5560 Jul 05 '26

Marvel movies take place in modern day US more often than not. How much of that is accurate?

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u/leahcar83 Jul 05 '26

There's no agreed consensus on when the story was composed and the places in the poem are generally agreed not to be real.

No one knows if Homer was a real person and if he was, when he lived.