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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corjay" data-source="post: 4366711" data-attributes="member: 52839">That is true, and the key point there is that much of the ancient stories were written as poetry, but that did not last forever. Outside of that the best difference I can seem to think of is that more monsters are used, mixing monster/race tropes from all manner of legends that have been collected through history. Nothing's sacred.You're using a David and Goliath-type summation for modern fantasy to show how modern and ancient literature is different? I can't tell you how priceless that is. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Seriously, though, you're focusing on the wrong part of that evidence. It isn't that it isn't seen in the old literature (it is), but the question is how frequently it's seen in today's fiction. And I think that is related more to the times we're, and speaks nothing to how frequent the supernatural aspects have been amplified.As an example of ancient texts that match modern standards of fantasy, the 1,001 Nights was a collection of tales that were pure fantasy written for the purpose of pure fantasy as admitted in the tale itself, and its not a poem. However, this only goes back to the 9th century.I know of more that I can't remember the names of, but all I can recall are poetry. So while the fantasy element is maintained as strongly as modern fantasy in all the stories that come to mind, all of them are poetry. So that is really the biggest difference that comes to mind.</blockquote>

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