I'm studying the life of Alexander the Great by watching anime. It is about as reliable as the pre-literate oral story tradition or the Bible.

But you know what, stories are not about the facts of what happened, but the conclusions that the listener draws from them.

"The mind is an organism that will make patterns. It doesn't care if there are no real patterns to be had. We make conclusions to stories all by ourselves." - Bob Deutsch, cognitive anthropologist