Or perhaps Homer was colorblind?
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoBefore that basically everything towards the magenta part of the spectrum was all just called red.
And before that we have people looking at colours entirely differently, like Homer calling the sea the colour of red wine.
Which my Greek teacher would explain by saying “my pencil is the the same shade of yellow as your book is blue”.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Cultures around the world divide the color spectrum up in wildly different ways, which really highlights the absurdity of “color” being a real, objective property. There’s one culture (I forget which, somewhere in Africa) where all the “dark” variants of colors are called by the same name. Other cultures often combine texture and other properties into their words for colors.