'Zeus made night from mid-day': Terror and wonder in ancient accounts of solar eclipses
When you buy through links on our internet site , we may earn an affiliate charge . Here ’s how it works . For millennia , solar eclipse have inspired awe , wonder and concern . After all , it ’s not often thattwilight descends in the middle of the day . And just as we contrive for and anticipate their happening — like the totalsolar eclipsethat will be visible to millions of North Americans onApril 8 — ancient cultures across the Earth , from the Mayans to the ancient Greeks , developed their own mythologies and traditions around eclipse ....