id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-15575	Bilić, Tomislav	The Island of the Sun: Spatial Aspect of Solstices in Early Greek Thought	2016	30	.pdf	application/pdf	11405	621	65	The problem is approached by an analysis of several heliotropia, devices for marking or measuring solar turnings, and the Greek notion of solar turnings themselves, which is in its turn studied through discussion of the occurrences of the phrase τροπαὶ (ἠελίοιο) and its variants in traditional and in scientific texts.1 Both the name of the marking-device and the phrase with its 1 Both types of texts belong to a common Greek ethnographic context, which embraces a wide range of cultural phenomena. Although it is impossible to derive a precise latitude from the azimuths, TOMISLAV BILIĆ 197 ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 56 (2016) 195–224 to the Greeks from Pytheas’ time onwards as Thoule, where the summer tropic and the always-visible circle become one.5 Indeed, it could be claimed that the sun turns at (the latitude of) that island.6 This study thus follows the Greek understand- ing of solstices or solar turnings in the context of successive prevailing cosmological frameworks, recognizing the decisive role of these frameworks in understanding the various authors’ references to this phenomenon.	cache/grbs-15575.pdf	txt/grbs-15575.txt