extrapolation to earlier times involves errors that increase Tracking eclipses in antiquity, because the earliest verified eclipse records are in theĨth century B.C. Furthermore, there are inexactitudes involved in Tradition of information about an eclipse occurring maybe five centuries before the poem eclipse proposed by Schoch ( 1, 12, 13) and Neugebauer ( 14), seems unlikely because it would entail the transmission through oral Passage could refer not just to an allegorical eclipse used by the poet for literaryĮffect but actually to a specific historical one ( 11), such as the 16 April 1178 B.C. The uttering of that specific speech, some authors consider the lines themselves suspect Because Theoclymenus's only purpose appears to be No other characters appear to see an eclipse, and the darkness described in the passageĪgrees with imagery of Hades. There is no explicit mention of an eclipse elsewhere, the passage takes place indoors, This conjecture has not been widely accepted because Theory also developed by Heraclitus the Allegorist ( 9) both note several references to the day being New Moon, a necessaryĬondition for a solar eclipse. Himself made multiple descriptions of eclipses ( 6), suggested that this was a poetic description of a total solar eclipse ( 7, 8), a “unlucky” when referring specifically to omens. Often translated as “evil” in this passage, also meant Had a connotation of “attacking suddenly or by surprise,” the The world.” The word that we have translated as “The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades Their entrance into Hades, ending in the phrase (xx.356) “ὴέλιος Theoclymenus makes a most remarkable speech foreseeing the death of the suitors and Laughing uncontrollably and see their food spattered with blood. In the 20th book of the Odyssey, as the suitors are sitting down for their noontime meal,Īthena “confounds their minds” (Od. Apparent magnitudes: Venus, −4 Jupiter, −1.9 The ecliptic the hidden sun was “crowned” by the Spectacular: all planets were visible simultaneously on a 90° arc on (the 31st eclipse in Saros Seriesģ9) seen from the Ionian Islands at 12:02 p.m. The total solar eclipse of 16 April 1178 B.C. Reason eclipses were considered ill omens. Temperatures drop suddenly a fewĭegrees, winds change, animals become restless, and human faces may have a strikingĮxsanguinated appearance in the bluish light. At totality, the Sun appears toīe dramatically and suddenly extinguished ( 4,ĥ) the sky does not turn red but rather inkīlue as in late twilight, and then stars appear.
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Sun is still a million times brighter than a full Moon. Illumination so that no change is at first perceived: A few seconds before totality, the Total solar eclipses are rather rare, occurring approximately once inģ70 years at any given location on the planet ( 3).ĭuring a solar eclipse, our visual system adapts to the slow change in overall On an arc on the ecliptic of <90°, the five “nakedĮye” planets, the moon, and the sun's corona could be seen It wasĮarly spring because the equinox had occurred on 1 April. On 16 April 1178 B.C., close to noon local time, the total eclipse of the sun depicted inįig. Gilbert Murray, The Rise of the Greek Epic The disputed eclipse reference, may refer to that specific eclipse. In that period, a single date closely matches
Performing an exhaustive search of all possible dates in the spanġ250–1115 B.C., we looked to match these phenomena in the order and Hermes's trip to Ogygia as relating to the motion of planet Mercury. Venus, and the New Moon we supplement them with a conjectural identification of
We use three overtĪstronomical references in the epic: to Boötes and the Pleiades, Matching the astronomical phenomena we believe they describe. The Epic, without assuming the existence of an eclipse, and search for dates Of the disputed eclipse reference, we analyze other astronomical references in However, much skepticism remains about whether the To agree with classical estimates of the decade-earlier sack of Troy aroundġ192–1184 B.C.E. Over the Ionian Islands and was the only suitable eclipse in more than a century Neugebauer computed that the solar eclipse of 16 April 1178 B.C.E. Poetic description of a total solar eclipse. Odyssey (“Theoclymenus's prophecy”) to be a Plutarch and Heraclitus believed a certain passage in the 20th book of the
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