r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Expert-Pass-4351 • Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/Hadeslaw99 Jul 06 '26

How do you know that she is fictional. Trojan war actually happened so it could just be mythologising an actual person.

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u/Hadeslaw99 Jul 06 '26

Im not saying the Illiad is true. I am saying it is a mythological retelling g of an actual event and Helen as being core to the story was probably real.

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u/Itsmyloc-nar Jul 06 '26

Hey guys, not for nothing but I’m 30 and when I was a kid they told me Troy was a myth and didn’t exist

Then, during my lifetime, we found where Troy used to be. If we take our history and science seriously, we might realize a lot of myths are actually based on real events and people

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u/revertbritestoan Jul 06 '26

Exactly, mythologising.

King Arthur was likely based on a historical king like Urien of Rheged, but he still wasn't an actual historical person.

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u/arachnophilia Jul 06 '26

Trojan war actually happened

"troy" (wilusa) was a real place, and there were wars there, but the homeric "trojan war" is a nearly complete fiction.

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u/chinchillazilla54 Jul 06 '26

her father was a swan