Two years ago, researchers from the universities of Aberdeen in Scotland and Ponta Grossa in Brazil came to the conclusion that the 342 characters mentioned in Odyssey are all conected in the same way a modern group of people are.
This discovery shows us that Homer didn’t come up with a fictional tale, instead he described people and situations that actually existed. You can read the original article by the online english newspaper The Conversation here.
Odyssey is not fiction