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Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age is a book written by four-time British Prime Minister William Gladstone in 1858, discussing a range of issues in Homer including an original thesis on colour perception in Ancient Greece. [1] Gladstone was M.P. for the University of Oxford at the time of publication, but had been trained as a classicist.
William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS (/ ... The most influential was a study by John Robinson and Ronald Gallagher, ... William Ewart (1858). Studies on Homer and the ...
One of the first to observe Homer's description of colours was British statesman William Gladstone. [2] In his 1858 book Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Gladstone analysed all aspects of Homer's mythical world, to discover a total absence of blue from the poet's descriptions of the Greek natural scenery.
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Gladstone was a Homeric scholar and in his writings, notably Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, expressed that, because there was virtually a lack of color terminology in Homeric Greek literature, Greeks could probably not see color the same way people see color today.
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Typical of the era is the study by William Ewart Gladstone, who was a trained classicist. [12] Unless further ancient texts come to light, advances on the subject cannot be made. Therefore the most likely source of progress regarding the Pelasgians continues to be archaeology and related sciences.
Based on the frequencies of Greek letters, a first study of Dietmar Najock [22] particularly shows the internal cohesion of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Taking into account the repetition of the letters, a recent study of Stephan Vonfelt [23] highlights the unity of the works of Homer compared to Hesiod. The thesis of modern analysts being ...