It's mythology. It's different from fiction. The Ancient Greeks and Romans believed that it was real. In fact, the Epic Cycle of the Trojan wars was seen as an account of historical facts until the Middle Ages/Renaissance.
And even today, scholars debate whether those epics have some degree of historicity or not.
I commented in order to underline that fiction and myth are two very different concepts.
Besides, the historicity of numerous aspects of the Trojan wars has been debated even today by specialists that now much more about this than either one of us.
And the same can be said about the Bible, particularly about the New Testament. I'm agnostic, leaning atheist, and I don't really believe in miracles, but that doesn't mean I don't think that Paul, Jesus or Pontius Pilate weren't real people.
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u/GardenRafters 13d ago
You guys realize this wasn't a historical event right? It's a book. It's all made up.
Helen of Troy was the daughter of Zeus and a goose and was hatched out of an egg. She's not a real person.