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
...  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)