 Some archaeologists and historians, most notably, until his death in 1986, Finley, maintain that none of the events in Homer's works are historical.Others accept that there may be a foundation of historical events in the Homeric narrative, but say that in the absence of independent evidence it is not possible to separate fact from myth.Moses I. Finley, in "The World of Odysseus" presents a picture of the society represented by the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey", avoids the question as "beside the point that the narrative is a collection of fictions from beginning to end" Finley was in a minority when his "World of Odysseus" first appeared in 1954.