Im pretty sure it was around 50 years ago
The appropriate response is the first. You don't make a fiction story appear to be bona fide by including commentaries or references yet you do this when the subject is genuine like history. None of this is about fiction - where you make it up as you compose. At that point, you require activity or occasions to make the book appear to be practical. At the end of the day, a book set in 1944 in England better specify the Second World War or a book set in Germany in 1977 ought to say East and West Germany as independent countries.
This passage describes how <em>Odysseus' ships face the stotmy, wind-driven seas (A). </em>We can deduct it by the way the state of the ships are described. I mean, it says that the wind will hold steadly the masts and the white sails so we can figure it out the wind is pretty strong. Also it describes how they cannot do anything to avoid it but watching so it gives the idea of how strong the wind is.