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A quick further comment on your last posting which I didn't spot because I didn't turn to a new page (I won't make that mistake again). We must agree to differ on the plausibilty of contemporary observations unless those predating the massacre were accurately guessed with hindsight. Also, while I am...

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Forum Monk With reference to your question and my reply regarding observational techniques available to the ancient Greeks. I previously quoted the authors thus: As to the data, it is quite improbable, although not entirely impossible, that it had been observed and noted, preserved through oral trad...

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Thank you - I appreciate it - but I know when to bail out.

This exchange is now at an end.

Ishtar Can we just clear the air on something first? You write: Maybe you find it difficult to understand allegory - to read sub-text and hidden meanings. I know some people do ... it's not a criticism. It's just a fact that everyone has different strengths and weakness, and I have plenty of the lat...

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In your last post you did mean 16 April didn't you?

What observational techniques do you think were unavailable in c.1200BC? I don’t know, I’m no astronomer. I defer to the authors of the article: The main implausibility in the conclusions is that they imply that the author of the lines in question was, first, interested in advanced astronomy, at a ...

Ishtar I glanced at the Syrian Palestinian thread and could make neither head nor tail of it, so good for you that you’ve broken away and given us newcomers a chance, but… 1. I still don’t know what it’s about. How about a brief summary? 2. Your list is mind-numbing. Without concrete examples I’m st...

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A further clarification of my thoughts and then I’ll shut up. It seems to me that explanations run as follows: 1. The astronomical conditions (ACs) were noted at the time and preserved/remembered for introduction into the story when it was produced. This is ok for the eclipse but cannot account for ...

This is a little late - technical difficulties delayed my registration/activation. Has anyone read the Baikouzis and Magnasco article “Is an eclipse described in the Odyssey?” accessed via the main page link of 29 June? http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/06/23/0803317105.full.pdf It requires a c...