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By: Markquis Owens

Markquis Owens — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:14:28 +0000

Many myths can be interpreted as accounts of outworldly events placed in true human perspective. The celestial bodies, being turned into gods, and their affects on the people of the time (like the full moon making people crazy)have been recorded in many forms. The poem of Homer and the stories of countless others retell the events of both Earth and the beyond as one intertwined. They should not be discredited because of modern intellect and spiritual wherwithall. What Odysseus went through to get home, and the tremendous events that preceded this homecoming are full of the unbelievable. But we can start believing the story in little steps so that some great resourceful and intelligent king came home to his wife after fighting a long war many leagues away. When the city of Troy was found to have existed information about it location supported the idea about the possibility of war there.It is always great to see a physical science, one such as sometimes unbelievable as astronomy, supporting a social science such as history.

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By: Can an Eclipse Really Help us Date Events in Greek Mythology? | Discoblog | Discover Magazine

By: Markquis Owens