Talk:Wine-dark sea (Homer)

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Deardavid7 in topic Development of Color Terms in Language

Goethe edit

I'm trying to get some reliable sources for this. There is a lot of speculation. Anyway, it seems that Goethe did some writing on this, in his Theory of Colours, which might be worth mentioning (just because of his stature, whether or not it's plausible reasoning). But I don't have any first-hand or second-hand references for that. Any help? TomS TDotO (talk) 15:00, 2 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Interesting discussion of this online edit

Here is another good discussion of this topic: http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2016/01/colours-in-homer-2-wine-dark-sea.html -- The Anome (talk) 06:53, 8 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Development of Color Terms in Language edit

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 They hypothesized that early in a language's development of color terminology, languages would only have a few words for basic colors: 

I changed "early a language's" to "early in a language's". I hope that was a good interpolation on my part. David Deardavid7 (talk) 11:42, 22 February 2020 (UTC)Reply