Even the sky is so...what would I call it...sky-ish? That's exactly (though probably not) a conversation that would have taken place between a couple of ancient Greek people. They didn't have a word for the color blue!
In a tale almost as old as time, at least recorded time, Homer's “The Odyssey” has been a work of study into the lives of our ancient ancestors.
The stories, descriptions and details unlock interesting mysteries—and create new ones. For example: the phrase Homer uses to describe the ocean is “the wine-dark sea” instead of blue.
In fact, Homer's color palette was restricted to only five colors: metallics, black, white, yellow-green and red.
Even philosophers of the time restricted the colors to only four categories: white/light, dark/black, red and yellow. They described a rainbow as only having three bands.
Man, the world must have been pretty dreary back then!
