Canis Major
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Ursa Major
Homer Odyssey
Stesichoros The Journey of Hercules to Hesperia
Attic Old Comedy ( Aristophanes Birds; Pherecrates Savages)
Herodotos (Traveller's tales on Egypt/Persia/North Africa/Central Asia)
Ktesias of Knidos (Indian History, Persian History. He lived as the Royal Physician in the court of Artaxerxes II).
Hellenistic Traveller's tales in the Post-Alexandrian world. Geography.
Battle stories from the Greek Historians.
The True History (Vera Historia), should be considered as the first pure sample of science fiction literature.
Lucian pokes fun at previous literature and mythology.
The first visit to another celestial body and the first interstellar battle are found in the True History.
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The True History is the predecessor of European Literature such as
Dante The Divine Comedy
Gulliver's Travels
Jules Verne Twenty thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen
Voltaire Candid
Modern Science Fiction literature and cinematography owes a lot to these pioneering works.