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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3960677, member: 99456&quot;][USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] - fun post and I like the idea of capturing photos of luna by the light of an eclipse.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can include me in the list of fans of your Caracalla with bull-horses.&nbsp; The first predicted eclipse is said to have been on May 28, 585 BC, when Cyaxares of Media was at war with Lydia.&nbsp;&nbsp; Herodotus writes:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">In the sixth year, when neither could claim superiority, in the midst of an engagement, the day was suddenly involved in darkness.&nbsp; This phenomenon, and the particular period at which it was to happen, had been foretold by Thales the Milesian.&nbsp; Awed by the solemnity of the event, the parties desisted from engagement, and it further influenced them both to listen to certain positions for peace, which were made by Syennesis of Cilicia and Labynetus of Babylon.</font></p><p><font size="4">-<a href="https://archive.org/details/Herodotus4/page/n91" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/Herodotus4/page/n91" rel="nofollow">The History of Herodotus p 61</a></font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Here is a coin with Sun, Moon and Stars:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1043277[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>L. Lucretius Trio</b>, AR Denarius, 74 BC. Rome</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Radiate head of Sol right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> L LVCRETI in exergue, crescent moon with TRIO and seven stars above.</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Crawford 390/1</p><p><b>Note :</b> 32 obverse dies and the 7 stars refer to the constellation known as Septentriones, the Triones were 7 oxen driving a mill stone, as the the 7 stars of Ursa Major (Big Dipper) drive around the pole, a play on the moneyer&#039;s name.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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