Pathetic. More details here. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=homers-odyssey-may-document-eclipse http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=homers-odyssey-may-doc

Pathetic. More details here. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=homers-odyssey-may-document-eclipse http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=homers-odyssey-may-docum... They interpret a poetic statement about the sun as referring to an eclipse, and then yet another statement about the god Hermes as referring to a particular position of Mercury. I hate it when people try to reduce literature to some kind of secret code for other events, and just by coincidence, they happen to be the sort of events we can observe or calculate today.