Nuper novum opus Christophori Nolan in lucem prodiit, cui titulus est Odyssea.
Hoc "cinematographicum" opus nondum vidi; itaque de eo iudicare non
possum. Sin quis vestrum id vidit, libenter eius sententiam cognoscere velim.
Haec res mihi memoriam revocat praeclarae cuiusdam disputationis, quae
ante aliquot annos (anno MMXVIII) in hoc ipso foro habita est. Ibi "Evertjan" cum "David Amicus" de die reditus Ulixis in Ithacam disputabat.
Fons huius commentationis iam non exstat; fortasse tamen per "Internet Archive" reperiri potest.
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-date-determined- for-eclipse-in.htm
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New date determined for eclipse in Homer's Odyssey .
Scientists from the University of Athens have attempted once more to
date Homer's Odyssey based on the study of astronomical phenomena
described in the ancient Greek literary materpiece.
rCLWe believe that the story unfolds around some real events,rCY says professor of Astrophysics of University of Athens Panagiota PrekarCo Papadima, who led the research team.
rCLOdysseus arrived in Ithaca on October 25, 1207 BC. Five days later a
75% solar eclipse was recorded over the Ionian Sea. This is when
Odysseus killed the suitors,rCY says Mrs. Papadima.
rCLWe know from astronomical maps provided by NASA that between 1300 BC until 1130 BC, when the Homeric epics are dated, 14 solar eclipses took place. Only five were visible in the Ionian. Two of these were only at
2% and so were probably not noticed, while a third took place at sunset.
The fourth eclipse occurred in 1143 BC, a date close to the decline of
the Mycenaean civilization. Another eclipse, however, took place half a century earlier, on October 30, 1207 BC, from 14:30 until 17:30,rCY she explains.
Mrs. Papadima considers that this eclipse is in full accordance with the description found near the end of the Odyssey, when the seer
Theoclymenus foretells the death of all the suitors, saying:
Poor men, what terror is this that overwhelms you so? Night shrouds your heads, your faces, down to your knees rCo cries of-a mourning are bursting into fire rCo cheeks rivering tears rCo the walls and the handsome crossbeams dripping dank with blood!
Ghosts, look, thronging the entrance, thronging the court, go trooping
down to the realm of death and darkness! The sun is blotted out of the
sky rCo look there rCo a lethal mist spreads all across the Earth.
"This is a description of the eclipse which hid 3/4 of the sun," says
Mr. Papadima. "The date of the eclipse, October 30, 1207 BC, is also in complete agreement with the Homeric descriptions of the autumn rural
life and the mid-afternoon killing of the suitors," she says.
"Two such important developments like the murder of all the successors
in Ithaca and the solar eclipse must have spread rapidly throughout
Greece as an extremely memorable event" concludes Mrs. Papadima.
Desidarius wrote:
Nuper novum opus Christophori Nolan in lucem prodiit, cui titulus est
Odyssea.
Hoc "cinematographicum" opus nondum vidi; itaque de eo iudicare non
possum. Sin quis vestrum id vidit, libenter eius sententiam cognoscere
velim.
Haec res mihi memoriam revocat praeclarae cuiusdam disputationis, quae
ante aliquot annos (anno MMXVIII) in hoc ipso foro habita est. Ibi
"Evertjan" cum "David Amicus" de die reditus Ulixis in Ithacam
disputabat.
Fons huius commentationis iam non exstat; fortasse tamen per "Internet
Archive" reperiri potest.
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-date-
determined- for-eclipse-in.htm
Ecce quae in illa pagina continebantur:
**********************
New date determined for eclipse in Homer's Odyssey .
Scientists from the University of Athens have attempted once more to
date Homer's Odyssey based on the study of astronomical phenomena
described in the ancient Greek literary materpiece.
rCLWe believe that the story unfolds around some real events,rCY says
professor of Astrophysics of University of Athens Panagiota PrekarCo
Papadima, who led the research team.
rCLOdysseus arrived in Ithaca on October 25, 1207 BC. Five days later a
75% solar eclipse was recorded over the Ionian Sea. This is when
Odysseus killed the suitors,rCY says Mrs. Papadima.
rCLWe know from astronomical maps provided by NASA that between 1300 BC
until 1130 BC, when the Homeric epics are dated, 14 solar eclipses
took place. Only five were visible in the Ionian. Two of these were
only at 2% and so were probably not noticed, while a third took place
at sunset. The fourth eclipse occurred in 1143 BC, a date close to the
decline of the Mycenaean civilization. Another eclipse, however, took
place half a century earlier, on October 30, 1207 BC, from 14:30 until
17:30,rCY she explains.
Mrs. Papadima considers that this eclipse is in full accordance with
the description found near the end of the Odyssey, when the seer
Theoclymenus foretells the death of all the suitors, saying:
Poor men, what terror is this that overwhelms you so? Night shrouds
your heads, your faces, down to your knees rCo cries of-a mourning are
bursting into fire rCo cheeks rivering tears rCo the walls and the
handsome crossbeams dripping dank with blood!
Ghosts, look, thronging the entrance, thronging the court, go trooping
down to the realm of death and darkness! The sun is blotted out of the
sky rCo look there rCo a lethal mist spreads all across the Earth.
"This is a description of the eclipse which hid 3/4 of the sun," says
Mr. Papadima. "The date of the eclipse, October 30, 1207 BC, is also
in complete agreement with the Homeric descriptions of the autumn
rural life and the mid-afternoon killing of the suitors," she says.
"Two such important developments like the murder of all the successors
in Ithaca and the solar eclipse must have spread rapidly throughout
Greece as an extremely memorable event" concludes Mrs. Papadima.
Illam pelliculam ego spectavi nec mihi placuit; milia enim passuum
videtur abesse a mundo Homerico. Verbum "woke" mihi in mentem venit.
De illa eclipse solis et tempore quo eventus Odysseae acciderunt, nescio quid opinari debeam. Una res tamen animum meum percutit et cogitationes excutit. In eis versibus citatis, num vere eclipsis depingitur? Videntur figurae poeticae de molestiis humanis.
Quid tu arbitraris?
Vale
Desidarius wrote:[..]
Illam pelliculam ego spectavi nec mihi placuit; milia enim passuum
videtur abesse a mundo Homerico. Verbum "woke" mihi in mentem venit.
De illa eclipse solis et tempore quo eventus Odysseae acciderunt, nescio quid opinari debeam. Una res tamen animum meum percutit et cogitationes excutit. In eis versibus citatis, num vere eclipsis depingitur? Videntur figurae poeticae de molestiis humanis.
Quid tu arbitraris?
Vale
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