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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] What it the above supposed to prove? :D [QUOTE]Originally posted by JoshuaConnerMoon: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: The word melanchroes (not melas) was used to describe the ancient Egyptians and has been rightly translated as black, much to your chagrin. [/QUOTE]The suffix chroes/chros means skin, while melan/melas refers to a dark colour range; it is not limited to black. And the first appearance of the word melanchroos in classical literature (Homer) is describing Odysseus (a native Greek from Ithaca), not a black. To quote the classicist W.E.Gladstone- "Oyusseus, on his restoration to beauty by Athene, becomes melanchroos (Od. xvi. 171). The melanchroos [p.377] of his herald, in Od. xix. 245, does not seem to bear any different sense. Homer's [b]melas means dark rather than black[/b], and is itself but indefinite; we are obliged to take these words as referring to an [b]olive complexion[/b]." [/qb][/QUOTE][QUOTE] Were the ancient Greeks and Romans colour blind? Wednesday 19 February 2014 11:50AM Homer left historians with the impression that the ancient Greeks and Romans had an underdeveloped appreciation of colour. The ancients, in fact, were a shade more sophisticated than that and understood colour in a completely different way to us, argues Mark Bradley Gladstone noted that Homer actually uses very few colour terms, that black and white predominate, and that he uses the same colours to describe objects which look quite different. According to Bradley, the Greeks viewed chroma (in Latin color) as essentially the visible outermost shell of an object. So a table wouldn't be brown, it was wood-coloured. A window would be glass-coloured. Hair would be hair-coloured, skin would be skin-coloured. 'They wouldn't talk in terms of the abstract colours that we are used to today.' The term 'synaesthetic' can be used to broadly describe the different kind of association that the ancient Greeks made between the five senses. 'If colours are the external manifestations of objects, then the perception of that colour can tap into other ideas such as smell, liquidity, saturation, touch, texture.' In what we would tend to think of as purely visual, the ancient Greeks brought other senses into play. 'In antiquity, in pre-modern societies, there is much more capacity for the way you describe the world to tap into several different senses simultaneously,' says Bradley. So what of Homer's wine-dark sea (oinops pontos)? Bradley describes this as antiquity's best-known colour problem and one that's given rise to various theories. One interpretation is that it describes the sea at sunset when it's a sort of fiery red. Another interpretation hold that it's an allusion to a now obsolete type of French wine called le petit bleu or le gros bleu, a blue wine, which, if it even existed in antiquity, might explain the metaphor. [/QUOTE]—Amanda Smith http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bodysphere/features/5267698 So, tell how did Homer describe these? [IMG]http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/89163535.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921CC759DF4EBAC47D084C44BBFB765226CAEF02E07F61A42B3C3A0197F54A62E63[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1420/935035527_ce945bf4de_z.jpg?zz=1[/IMG] [IMG]http://tinyurl.com/3f29svm[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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