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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 Gladstone was educated from 1816 to 1821 at a ... The most influential was a study by John Robinson ... 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.
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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The Map of the Outer Geography of the Odyssey and two maps of ancient Greece were based on the scholarly work of William Ewart Gladstone, who had also revised the map plates and text of the atlas. [19] In 1871, Johnston published the Half-Crown Atlas of British History for the price sensitive educational market. It was designed as a connected ...
Photograph taken at Dalmeny House of the campaign's organizers in 1879. Included in the photograph are William Ewart Gladstone and his wife Catherine and daughter Mary, as well as the Earl of Rosebery (seated at front, facing right) and his Countess and the Countess's cousin Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild.