I decided that my expert project for school will be about fantasy literature, a genre that is related to the myths and legends of ancient times. The Fantasy genre, in its modern sense it's only two centuries long, however, its antecedents have a long and distinguished history, and I'm going to start this project by explaining the history of those "antecedents".
During ancient times, it was common to explain unnatural facts that the people didn't understood by telling myths and stories, an example is the myth of Zeus (the king of the ancient Greek gods, people believed that he caused storms) and the Mount Olympus, the Greek mountain where the Greek gods supposedly lived, according to the legends of the time.
Even if modern Fantasy literature is different from the legends of the past it's obvious that those ancients stories are the antecedents of what we see as modern Fantasy.
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