Analysis of communities in a mythological social network

8 The intriguing nature of classical Homeric narratives has always fascinated the occidental culture 9 contributing to philosophy, history, mythology and straight forwardly to literature. However what 10 would be so intriguing about Homer's narratives' At a first gaze we shall recognize the very literal 11 appeal and aesthetic pleasure presented on every page across Homer's chants in Odyssey and 12 rhapsodies in Iliad. Secondly we may perceive a biased aspect of its stories contents, varying from 13 real-historical to fictional-mythological. To encompass this glance, there are some new archeological 14 finding that supports historicity of some events described within Iliad, and consequently to Odyssey. 15 Considering these observations and using complex network theory concepts, we managed to built 16 and analyze a social network gathered across the classical epic, Odyssey of Homer. Longing for 17 further understanding, topological quantities were collected in order to classify its social network 18 qualitatively into real or fictional. It turns out that most of the found properties belong to real 19 social networks besides assortativity and giant component's size. In order to test the network's 20 possibilities to be real, we removed some mythological members that could imprint a fictional aspect 21 on the network. Carrying on this maneuver the modified social network resulted on assortative 22 mixing and reduction of the giant component, as expected for real social networks. Overall we 23 observe that Odyssey might be an amalgam of fictional elements plus real based human relations, 24 which corroborates other author's findings for Iliad and archeological evidences.