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Jul 02
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the Stumblng Tumblr must’ve mentioned before that he’s a big Homer fan; he especially likes The Iliad and The Odyssey in the English translations by Robert Fagles well, here via this is an interesting bit of scientific speculation about The Odyssey it is possible to derive from events described in The Odyssey, coupled with an analysis of various astronomical information, that the day on which Odysseus finally returned home from Troy was APR 16, 1178 BC the above image of astronomers studying a solar eclipse is from here ——
  • the Stumblng Tumblr must’ve mentioned before that he’s a big Homer fan; he especially likes The Iliad and The Odyssey in the English translations by Robert Fagles
  • well, here via this is an interesting bit of scientific speculation about The Odyssey
  • it is possible to derive from events described in The Odyssey, coupled with an analysis of various astronomical information, that the day on which Odysseus finally returned home from Troy was APR 16, 1178 BC
  • the above image of astronomers studying a solar eclipse is from here
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