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100 1 _aGladstone, W. E.
_q(William Ewart),
_d1809-1898
245 1 0 _aStudies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 :
_bOlympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2015
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studies_on_Homer_and_the_Homeric_Age
500 _aRelease date is 2015-09-02
508 _aProduced 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)
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aHomer
653 _aEpic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
653 _aCivilization, Homeric
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49858
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