>>4778Eclipses also were used to foretell future events:
The Chinese thought elcipses meant horrible things were in store for the current emperor, and in Nineveh solar eclipses also meant bad things for the ruler, that he may be deposed and replaced with a tyrant or killed.
Ancient Greeks had a more chad outlook on eclipses according to this poem from 680-645 BC:
>Nothing there is beyond hope,>Nothing that can be sworn impossible, >Nothing wonderful, since Zeus, father of the Olympians,>Made night from mid-day,>Hiding the light of the shining Sun,And sore fear came upon men.