Enigma: Why is there so few references to color in ancient …
Enigma: Why is there so few references to color in ancient texts?
In Homer the main colors are black & white. Sea is described "violet", but also sheeps, "green" is applied to faces, olive, & honey. The sky is described as "iron or copper" but never blue.
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And why does the same deficience in the language of color applies to all ancient works: the Old Testament, Indian Vedas, Icelandic sagas & the Koran ?
Solution:
The Greeks like the ancients were all color-blind.
Mankind’s perception of color increased chronological according to the schema of the color spectrum: first came the sensitivity to red, then yellow, then green, and only finally to blue.
The most remarkable thing is that this seems to have occurred in exactly the same order in different cultures all over the world & there is no reason to believe that it has stopped.
We are still going through this evolution of increasing our perceptions.