No, the Ancient Greeks Weren’t Color Blind. They Justed Had Unique Ways to Describe the World

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Were ancients color-blind? They weren’t but this idea has been passed around for centuries, usually by classicists confused by the Greeks’ odd choice of descriptive language. Homer, author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, the first ‘great’ poet of...