The Paper in question...

Adam Crowl — 6/29/2008 8:30:44 PM (archived)

Hi All

PNAS has put the paper up as open access...

PNAS Paper

...the date itself is unoriginal - originally suggested by Schoch and Neubauger in the late 1920s. What's new is the use of other astronomical hints, explicit and plausible, in the "Odyssey" and "Illiad", to further constrain the dates.

From an alternative chronology point of view the fact that eclipses repeat in the same place roughly every 370 years means that c.808 BC is another possible date. I would need a good eclipse calculator to verify that - any pointers guys?

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Odysseus' homecoming. - Lee - 6/24/2008 2:03:59 AM
- Homer did not write the Odyssey. It was another guy with the same name. - ER - 6/24/2008 2:30:26 PM
  - Unproven assumptions - Adam Crowl - 6/28/2008 9:59:05 AM
    - re: Unproven assumptions - ER - 6/28/2008 4:41:00 PM
      - Agreed... - Adam Crowl - 6/29/2008 5:19:38 AM
        
        But he named his kid Astyanax - Socrates II - 6/30/2008 6:20:48 PM
        
        Actually, Hector named him Scamandrius... - ER - 7/1/2008 2:37:01 AM
        
        The Paper in question... - Adam Crowl - 6/29/2008 8:30:44 PM
        
        I'm curious, - ER - 7/1/2008 2:51:36 PM
        
        Homer was a poet first... - Adam Crowl - 7/1/2008 7:54:11 PM
        
        re: Homer was a poet first... - ER - 7/1/2008 8:42:52 PM
  - Doh! (n/t) - Homer J. Simpson - 6/28/2008 12:41:52 AM
- low on facts, high on speculation (n/t) - dd - 6/24/2008 1:37:52 PM
  - New Date for Caesar's British Invasion - Socrates II - 6/27/2008 4:23:41 PM

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