[Aaron Poochigian]

Sweet--Asymptote picked up the Archilochus fragment I posted here yesterday. The intro is funny (I didn't write it)--Eclipse

http://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/

[Erik Olson]

Nice translation, Aaron! Timely, too.

[Allen Tice]

I think it may have occurred to others besides me that when Plato was going on about people living in a cave and seeing shadows made by firelight, he might well have been discreetly alluding to dark room demonstrations that involved spheres being moved around a carefully covered flame so that the phases of the spherical moon and also both kinds of eclipses could be modeled for the Academy students in the cave.

Before I forget, let me say that Aaron's translation is one good slab of translation.