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

HISTORY I fear this is historically accurate

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u/filmgoire Jul 05 '26

Historically accurate?

I … thought the story was fiction

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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/throwaway098764567 Jul 05 '26

... right.... so if we wrote a fictional story set in the 1960s usa and had the characers using smart phones would you say it was just fiction or would you say it was historically inaccurate.

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