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The turning-points of the Sun (1)

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Astronomical treatises (Mul Apin)
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.01 Astrological and astronomical knowledge and theories
05.01.10 Astronomical and astrological texts
05.01.10.01 Astronomical treatises (Mul Apin)
Sun
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.01 Astral and celestial symbols and imagery
02.01.01 Sun
Topography
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.12 Cosmo-, urano- and geography
05.12.04 Topography

Keywords
solstice
sun

Period
Greek Archaic Age
Neo-Assyrian Empire

Channel
Greek poets

Text
The turning-points of the sun in Odyssey probably refers to the kind of Mul Apin observations of how the rising point of the sun moves along the eastern horizon between the two solstices.

Homer, Odyssey 15.403-404:
There is an island called Syrie, if you have heard of it, above Ortygia, where are the turning-points (tropai) of the sun.

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Homer, Odyssey 15.403-404

Bibliography

Pingree 1998, 129

Pingree, David. “Legacies in Astronomy and Celestial Omens.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 125-137.

Amar Annus

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