Is an eclipse described in the Odyssey?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 8823-8828

  Baikouzis, Constantino ^a,b   Magnasco, Marcelo O ^a,c  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^c Box 212 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; History; Homer

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHRONOLOGY; ECLIPSE; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SUN;

EID: 48249086584     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803317105     Document Type: Article

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