Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart) 1809-1898 creator text utu 2015 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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) Original publication data not identified Homer Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism Civilization, Homeric PA Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49858 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49858 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134139.0 49858