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Posted in Musings, tagged eclipse, Thucydides on April 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Thucydides knows everything about everything, Part 1283. It’s not enough that he recorded eclipses of both sun and moon, without directly attributing them to divine action – okay, he does claim an increased number of eclipses as grounds for recognising the unprecedented greatness of the Peloponnesian War, but he also notes that the eclipse of 431 occurred in the moon’s first phase, implying a natural event. No, he has to have anticipated all our modern concerns as well:

A screenshot of a tweet, noting that Thucydides described an eclipse at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, observed that it turned people blind and advised them to stay indoors. (more…)