To: blam
... he doubts Homer ever saw an eclipse himself...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...
5 posted on
06/23/2008 5:51:01 PM PDT by
El Cid
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To: El Cid
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... That's just one invented biographical detail added over the years. Real details of his life, or even whether he existed at all, are unknown.
9 posted on
06/23/2008 6:19:23 PM PDT by
Kleon
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