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Is there a term for the feeling that ancient and medieval history is not real?

Asked by ragingloli (51978points) May 6th, 2023

While you understand on a rational level that for example ancient Greece existed, on an visceral level the histories of Athens or Sparta, or the lives of Aristoteles and Socrates, feel no different from the stories of Hercules and Odysseus.
The sense that the further back in time you go, the more history becomes emotionally indistinguishable from mythology.

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