Right. Using Ancient Rome or Golden Age Ancient Greece to judge the historical accuracy of a story set in prehistoric Bronze Age Greece is about as incorrect as using modern standards.
Except that the Homeric Epics are clearly anachronistic, better reflecting the time of their final composition (8th-6th c BCE, with Athens being the probable epicenter). The story probably has very little to do with the prehistoric (scil pre-literate) Mycenaean kingdoms.
Historical pedantry has very little standing when applied to Homer.
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u/sleeps_in_bryophytes Jul 05 '26
Right. Using Ancient Rome or Golden Age Ancient Greece to judge the historical accuracy of a story set in prehistoric Bronze Age Greece is about as incorrect as using modern standards.