IN another of the digressions that often give spice to the pursuit of science,
scholars find themselves wrestling with the concept of Homer’s ‘‘wine-dark sea.’’ The expression appears dozens of times in those epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Yet the sea in question, the Aegean, is no less blue or blue-green than any other. What did Homer have in mind?
The question is being raised once again in recent issues of Nature, the British science journal. It was proposed in one letter to the journal that perhaps the wine the Greeks drank was indeed blue.
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: December 20, 1983
“And now have I put in here, as thou seest, with ship and crew, while sailing over the wine-dark sea to men of strange speech, on my way to Temese for copper; and I bear with me shining iron.”
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I want this wine. It looks so pretty.
https://bluewine.us/
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From the NYT, 1983:
Homer’s Sea: Wine-Dark?
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: December 20, 1983
The rest of the article is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/20/science/homer-s-sea-wine-dark.html
/image “wine-dark sea”
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http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bodysphere/features/5267698
Achilles sat on the shore and looked out to the wine-dark sea
https://www.metafilter.com/130875/Achilles-sat-on-the-shore-and-looked-out-to-the-wine-dark-sea
The Wine-Dark Sea: Was Homer Color Blind?
http://www.thewinedarksea.com/2014/02/26/wine-dark-sea-homer-color-blind/
@heartny Blue is far from my color, but i’d buy it out of curiosity.
I was given some of this for Yule, haven’t cracked the bottle yet:
Just like this tempted me, or a red one at least, but I resisted that time: