The last time humans reached for the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, Canada didn't have an astronaut program. Now a Canadian will be flying around the moon.
In the Roman sphere, uncertainty also can preside for moon tales. Wilcox was recently teaching a passage in Latin about Aeneas' descent to the underworld in Virgil's"Aeneid;" that epic first-century poem is a foundational part of Roman culture attempting to justify its empire-building.
The moon also may have been a spot where at least some ancients perceived different rules, like the satirical"A True Story" by the second-century Syrian author Lucian of Samosata, whose work survives in ancient Greek despite experts suggesting he preferred Aramaic. The fictional moon voyage brings readers to a"kind of topsy-turvy land" with different rules, such as no women being present at all, Wilcox said.
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