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Results: Fact or Fantasy? (Part Two)

Published on 09/22/2021
By: sarahzahm
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While searching for a topic for my next series, I came across an article of mystical persons that may have never existed. Important figures of ancient legend and contemporary culture serve to inspire us with their feats of strength, virtue and talent. Does the fact that they may be the product of creative imagination rather than actually exist matter? So, I leave it up to you in this short three part series: fact or fantasy? (Source: Espresso Communication)
1.
1.
William Shakespeare - Did Shakespeare be or not be? Historians and scholars dispute who actually wrote the famous plays, sonnets and poetry. Doubters point out that the Bard didn't leave behind much actual evidence of his life. An actor named Shakespeare seems to have existed, but any mention of him by contemporaries as a playwright as well as a thespian do not. The debate rages on. Do you think this was a real person?
William Shakespeare - Did Shakespeare be or not be? Historians and scholars dispute who actually wrote the famous plays, sonnets and poetry. Doubters point out that the Bard didn't leave behind much actual evidence of his life. An actor named Shakespeare seems to have existed, but any mention of him by contemporaries as a playwright as well as a thespian do not. The debate rages on. Do you think this was a real person?
Yes
63%
1457 votes
No
10%
222 votes
Undecided
27%
621 votes
2.
2.
Robin Hood - Robin Hood and his band of merry men taking from the rich and giving to the poor has been popular in folklore for 700 years. Around the 15th century, Christian revelers in England marked May Day with a Robin Hood-like figure who had quasi-religious significance. That said, real historical and legal records have little evidence that he actually existed, outside some variations on his name used as epithets for outlaws ("Robehod"), which may have been inspired by the legend. Do you think this was a real person?
Robin Hood - Robin Hood and his band of merry men taking from the rich and giving to the poor has been popular in folklore for 700 years. Around the 15th century, Christian revelers in England marked May Day with a Robin Hood-like figure who had quasi-religious significance. That said, real historical and legal records have little evidence that he actually existed, outside some variations on his name used as epithets for outlaws (
Yes
38%
866 votes
No
28%
638 votes
Undecided
35%
796 votes
3.
3.
Homer - Homer is the ancient Greek author of two of the greatest stories ever told: the Iliad and the Odyssey. While the battle of Troy and one of its chief warriors wandering his way home make for riveting reading, many modern-day historians don't believe that Homer actually existed. The epics may have been written by multiple authors, whose separate poems were later standardized in the two works. Do you think this was a real person?
Homer - Homer is the ancient Greek author of two of the greatest stories ever told: the Iliad and the Odyssey. While the battle of Troy and one of its chief warriors wandering his way home make for riveting reading, many modern-day historians don't believe that Homer actually existed. The epics may have been written by multiple authors, whose separate poems were later standardized in the two works. Do you think this was a real person?
Yes
48%
1108 votes
No
15%
354 votes
Undecided
36%
838 votes
4.
4.
Prester John - Stories of Prester John, the "Priest King," first popped up in the 12th century and persisted until the 17th century. His Christian kingdom, surrounded by barbarians, was first thought to exist in Asia but later wandered in popular imagination to Africa. The "history of a man who never existed" may have been invented as part of the Christian struggle against the Islamic world. Do you think this was a real person?
Prester John - Stories of Prester John, the
Yes
33%
769 votes
No
67%
1531 votes
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