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Did the Iliad and the Odyssey really happen?

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It's hard to say definitively if the stories really happened. But the circumstancial evidence suggests that at least the Illiad might be based on actual events. In the 1860's, Frank Calvert began excavating a hill called Hisarlik in Turkey, believing it to be the sight of Troy. read more

Most probably not. It is possible that the background to the Iliad was a war; but the actual happenings described in the epic is an example of poetic license. The Odyssey is certainly poetic license; all of it. read more

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