The sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist has overspread the world.Thanks blam!
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Very interesting. How does this date compare to those usually posited for Homer?
Interesting. Thanks for posting. I really enjoyed reading Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in college. Fascinating.
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Homer was blind... Unless he got that way by staring at the sun during an eclipse, its probably a fairly safe bet that he never saw one...
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It's quite obvious from the narrative that Theoclymenus is not describing an eclipse. He is viewing the suitors in the banquet hall and describes the vision he is having of their impending doom:
Shrouded in night are your heads and your faces and your knees beneath you; kindled is the sound of wailing, bathed in tears are your cheeks, and sprinkled with blood are the walls and the fair panels. And full of ghosts is the porch, full also the court, ghosts hastening down to Erebus beneath the darkness, and the sun has perished out of heaven and an evil mist covers all.
... the suitors laugh at him and tell him to go outside, if it is so dark in the hall. The vision of the "evil mist" is fulfilled poetically when Odysseus shoots Eurymachus "upon the breast beside the nipple" and his death agonies are described in the usual Homeric detail, ending with "and over his eyes the mist (achlys) poured down."
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In the shadow of the Moon
New Scientist | 30 January 1999 | editors
Posted on 08/31/2004 8:42:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1203912/posts
An epic battle on Homer’s gender
The Australian | July 03, 2006 | Dalya Alberge (The London Times)
Posted on 07/02/2006 7:46:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1659530/posts
Samuel Butler’s “Authoress of the Odyssey”:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1727
http://ia301142.us.archive.org/1/items/authoressofodyss00butlrich/authoressofodyss00butlrich_djvu.txt
Drill hole begins Homeric quest
BBC News | Wednesday, 11 October 2006 | Jonathan Amos
Posted on 10/11/2006 9:53:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1717536/posts
Engineers To Help Find Homer’s Itacha
Yahoo News | 3-26-2007 | Derek Gatopoulos
Posted on 03/27/2007 3:15:17 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807729/posts
Victor Davis Hanson: The Ancient Greeks – Were they like us at all?
The New Criterion | May 2004 | Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 05/04/2004 8:33:07 PM PDT by quidnunc
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1129727/posts
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