With the Illiad and the Anied history is not lost.

We have but to read and read well to know who we are as humans.  More origans than Genesis.  The Odyssey is almost an escape from the realism, perhaps Ovid did the same for Virgil.  It is a dangerous world and it was then a time humanity was not determined to find safety from that fact.  Do you think we can ever make it safe?

A LIE ABOUT RED AS A RESULT OF BLOOD..

Blue is more of an intense color than red.  Fact.