Friday, February 17, 2006
This Day in Ancient History
On this day in 478 BC, an annular eclipse of the Sun occurred at Sardis, in modern Turkey, while Xerxes was departing for his expedition against Greece. See Herodotus, VII, 37. Xerxes should have taken it as a sign to turn back.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:03 AM 
