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In Dante's Inferno, Odysseus is seen suffering in hell. Did Christians in Dante's time believe Greco-Roman mythical tales such as the Trojan War saga to be "historical" despite the strong presence of "pagan" deities in them?

by /u/megami-hime in /r/AskHistorians

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