The
sun has been obliterated from the sky and
an unlucky darkness invades the world Homer,
the Odyssey
Eventually,
the stars took a luckier turn for the embattled hero of the Odyssey — while for
his enemies, the noontime sun turned ominously dark.
Homer
marked Odysseus’ last days of wandering on his way back to his kingdom of Ithaca with accurate references to the
position of the stars and planets and to a solar eclipse, researchers propose
in an upcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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