01945cam a22003373u 4500 49858 UtSlPG 20260610134139.0 m cr n 260607r2015||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PA Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 : Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2015 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studies_on_Homer_and_the_Homeric_Age Release date is 2015-09-02 Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3" by W. E. Gladstone is a scholarly work written in 1858. The British Prime Minister and classical scholar examines Homer's epic poems, proposing a controversial theory about ancient Greek color perception. Gladstone suggests that Homer's strange color descriptions—calling the sea "wine-looking" and using "purple" for blood, clouds, and rainbows—reveal that ancient Greeks categorized colors by lightness and darkness rather than hue. His claims sparked debate about whether Greeks might have perceived colors differently than modern readers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Homer Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism Civilization, Homeric https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49858 90696 90696