I understand. I also should have chosen better words than "going in the wrong direction". Study whatever fascinates you. I believe we would have had more recorded words of "realists" if Socrates set a precedent to write things down, and it says alot about the culture where others didn't feel they could write these down without "blaspheming" essentially. Forgive me I'm not an expert but it reminds me about a Greek philosopher I heard about recently on a podcast about this very subject (if the Greeks believed the myths were literal). Aristarches maybe erasthones maybe? Can't remember ATM, would have to look it up. Supposedly he was writing and spreading the idea that they weren't literal, until the very moment he came down with a deadly disease. He then retracted everything he said and went to offer a sacrifice to some God looking to be healed after he continued to get worse. Sorry for the vagueness.