TY - BOOK AU - Gladstone,W.E. TI - Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3: I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer AV - PA PY - 2016/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Homer KW - Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism KW - Civilization, Homeric N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studies_on_Homer_and_the_Homeric_Age; Release date is 2016-09-07; 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 N2 - "Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3" by W. E. Gladstone is a scholarly work published in 1858. Written by a future British Prime Minister trained as a classicist, this volume explores ancient Greek literature and culture. Most notably, Gladstone analyzes Homer's peculiar color descriptions—purple blood, wine-dark seas—suggesting ancient Greeks perceived color differently than modern readers. His controversial theories sparked debate about whether Homer's contemporaries categorized colors by lightness and darkness rather than hue. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53004 ER -