Talk:Wine-dark sea (Homer)

Goethe

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)

Interesting discussion of this online

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)

Development of Color Terms in Language

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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: 

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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)

Why is there no mention of the sea looking like dark white wine in this article?

Underneath the reflection of the sky, the color of seawater looks like a darker version of white wine? Shouldn't that at least be mentioned amongst all the tangential discussion of the color blue? Slicehyperfunk (talk) 13:18, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Possible citation for alkaline water theory

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/20/science/homer-s-sea-wine-dark.html

IDK if a NYT article is appropriate for this sort of citation, but it also has researcher names that could be followed up on for papers or whatnot. 2603:3003:2471:0:0:0:0:D547 (talk) 17:28, 27 August 2024 (UTC)