The Homeric Minimum is a grand solar minimum that took place between 2,800 and 2,550 years Before Present (c. 800–600 BC). It appears to coincide with, and have been the cause of, a phase of climate change at that time, which involved a wetter Western Europe and drier eastern Europe. This had far-reaching effects on human civilization, some of which may be recorded in Greek mythology and the Old Testament.
The HomericMinimum is a grand solar minimum that took place between 2,800 and 2,550 years Before Present (c. 800–600 BC). It appears to coincide with...
Solar minimum is the regular period of least solar activity in the Sun's 11-year solar cycle. During solar minimum, sunspot and solar flare activity diminishes...
synchronized fluctuation from a period of minimum activity to a period of a maximum activity back to a period of minimum activity. The magnetic field of the...
7310 BC, 7520 BC, 8220 BC, 9170 BC. Solar wind Solar variation Solar minimum List of solar cycles – table of solar cycles NASA C. D. Camp & K. K. Tung...
numbers of sunspots appear Solar minimum - sunspot and solar flare activity diminishes HomericMinimum Dalton Minimum, lasting from about 1790 to 1830...
the composition of the Homeric poems, though it is widely believed that they were based on earlier traditions. Both the Homeric epics and the Epic Cycle...
(the area from which the theory was first developed) to Homeric epic. Kirk argues that Homeric poems differ from those traditions in their "metrical strictness"...
characteristic in Greek mythology. In ancient Greek literature such as the Homeric Hymns, there are references to the Parthenon goddesses Artemis, Athena...
Lāzpa). The earliest reference to Lesbos in Greek texts comes from the Homeric poems, where it is described as 'well-built'. The etymology of the name...
this period. Virgil's Aeneid was a national epic in the manner of the Homeric epics of Greece. Horace perfected the use of Greek lyric metres in Latin...
water-shortage so severe and so long-standing that "thirsty Argos" featured in Homeric epic. During that winter, Hadrian toured the Peloponnese. His exact route...
in Classical Attic), which is a plural word. In earlier Greek, such as Homeric Greek, the name had been current in the singular form though, as Ἀθήνη...
Sailor' even draws inspiration directly from Hellenistic literature like the Homeric epics (translated from Greek to Arabic in the 8th century CE) and Alexander...
of Homeric epic on Western civilization has been significant, inspiring many of its most famous works of literature, music, art and film. The Homeric epics...
syllabic script, c. 1300 BC. According to Strabo, Corcyra (Κόρκυρα) was the Homeric island of Scheria (Σχερία), and its earliest inhabitants were the Phaeacians...
Charles (1997). Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod. Psychology Press. p. 27. ISBN 9780415157063. Retrieved...
Aristarchus of Samothrace (c. 220 – c. 143 BC), ancient Greek grammarian and Homeric scholar Theophanes the Confessor (c. 758 – c. 818) Nikolaos Fardys (1853–1901)...
by a succession of three waves, the largest estimated at 70 feet. RMS Homeric (1924) – Hit by a 24 m (80 ft) wave while sailing through a hurricane off...
bid process set by the Bankruptcy court in Jacksonville, Florida. The minimum bid for the 11 October 2018 auction was set at US$21.5 million (£16.5m)...
dedicated to Hades and Persephone. The Rharian plain is also mentioned in the Homeric Hymn to Artemis; it appears to have been in the neighbourhood of the city;...
as residing in central Italy alongside the Latins. The 7th-century BC Homeric Hymn to Dionysus referred to them as pirates. Unlike later Greek authors...
came to be known as Cephallenia. Kefalonia has also been suggested as the Homeric Ithaca, the home of Odysseus, rather than the smaller island bearing this...
invaluable evidence for the Boetian economic system and its developments in the Homeric Age. In the poem Hesiod, who lived in Boeotia, describes the beginnings...
ancient Greek laws; the earliest notions of the subject can be found in Homeric poems. Later, the works of Theophrastus, On the Laws, are said to have...