Blond Tom said, I actually think there is a point. I think it’s really philosophical. We’re always talking about storytelling and how important it is in the Odyssey, how you have to read between the lines of people’s stories, like with Helen and Menelaus in Book 4. So maybe by presenting the Apologoi as based on truth but not representing the whole truth, Homer is making you wonder what “truth” is to begin with. Madeline said, slowly, It’s funny that we’re even having this conversation about what adventures are “real” as opposed to the adventures that may be “fiction,” since the whole poem is
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