Regenfaelle nach Blutvergiessen
16.10.2013 um 23:35While most ancient authors, such as Hesiod and Pliny, tended to ascribe the rain to the acts of gods, Cicero rejected the idea and instead suggested that the red rain may be caused by "ex aliqua contagion terrena", "from some earthly contagion".[1] The two cases in the Iliad are explained by Heraclitus as simply red-coloured rain rather than literally blood; however, a later scholiast (a critical or explanatory commentator) suggests that it was precipitation of blood which had evaporated earlier:[19] after a battle, blood would flow into nearby water courses, evaporate, and then fall as rain. This explanation demonstrating unfamiliarity with the properties of distillation was echoed by Eustathius of Thessalonica, a 12th-century archbishop.[1]
