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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 preparatory school at the vicarage of St ... William Ewart (1858). Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age ...
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.
Matthew was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1976 and served as the society's Literary Director from 1985-1989 and Vice-President from 1993-1997. After his death the society established the annual Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture for the Public Understanding of History in his memory, co-hosted with Gresham College.
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.
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.