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Hades – ‘The Unseen’ God Of The Dead, Fertility, Wealth And Earth’s Minerals

AncientPages.com | June 2, 2020

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Greek mythology, Hades was the god of the dead; his counterpart in Roman mythology is Pluto (from Ploutōn – wealthy). According to a passage

From 1300 to 1130 BC, the period when the events of both Homeric poems presumably took place, there were 14 solar eclipses. Only five of them were visible in the Ionian Sea area, and two of them only obscured 2% of the sun.

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Solar Eclipses And New Attempt To Date Homer’s Iliad And Odyssey

AncientPages.com | January 7, 2016

AncientPages.com - Scientists once again try to restore the chronology of the Homeric epics Iliad and Odyssey. They compare the natural phenomena the epic describes with astronomically ascertained ones,