I suppose no one believes that Homer is the offspring of the river god Meles and the nymph Kretheis?
http://www.theoi.com/Potamos/PotamosMeles.html
http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NympheKretheis.html
http://words.fromoldbooks.org/Brewer-DictionaryOfPhraseAndFable/m/melesigenes.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortes_Homericae
"But, while the Odyssey reads more like a collection of tales, ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemachy