See, I'm not so sure. One of the things I find totally fascinating about Homer is that it has all sorts of stuff that goes back 500 years before it was written, but on the other hand, it also has a bunch of anachronisms from the 8th century. I don't know if you could tell which category a solar eclipse would fall into, especially if that sort of thing is fairly common doom-laden imagery and wouldn't necessarily refer to a real event. And especially if the passage doesn't clearly describe an eclipse and Plutarch was the first one to interpret it that way.
I guess I feel that this is one of those instances where you actually need scientists and Hellenists working together instead of going off on their own, because both sides have certain necessary insights (both positive and negative). The article seemed to me an oversimplification on several counts.
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Date: 2008-06-28 16:02 (UTC)I guess I feel that this is one of those instances where you actually need scientists and Hellenists working together instead of going off on their own, because both sides have certain necessary insights (both positive and negative). The article seemed to me an oversimplification on several counts.