>Blue hair in Homer
remember when they said the greeks couldn't see blue because they described the ocean as wine-dark instead of blue? trust the science, chud.
Maybe like Russian blue cats, i.e. a kind of grey?
>>25472106It seems pretty likely that this is an overlapping colour category with what we would consider “black”, remember that colour terms are not directly transferable across languages.
>>25472603This. And the blonde Zeus we like to imagine looks like a Slav read a bad translation of Homer.
>>25472106>Yet Greeks thought their gods human in nature and of the same race as menWHAT? Who the fuck wrote those idiocy? The Herodotus reference is this sentence:>[the Persians] do not account the gods to be in the likeness of men, as do the Hellenes.The likeness of men, not the fucking race.
>>25472617The Greeks did in fact consider themselves to be the same race as the gods. The critical part left out here is that it’s not the same race as men, it’s the same race as Greeks
>>25472106I don't think all translations give Hector and Odysseus a blue beard/hair, so I'm sure there's some wiggle room there.>>25472603Yeah.
>>25472617Here's the reference to Pindar's Nemean Odes:>There is one race of men, one race of gods; and from a single mother we both draw our breath. This actually states they are separate races, albeit with the same origin. Really need to know who tf wrote the passage in op.
>>25472106The gods look crazy!
>>25472106This makes me think of an adaptation of the Iliad that's just a full-on anime. Weird hair colors and all.
>>25472106"Well, yeah. Of course!"
>>25472106Nips to this day use blue to represent a shade of black hair. The reason why some anime girls, especially with long straight hair have navy blue hair or black with navy highlights is that they represent what they consider an extra black color, like it's so black it has a blue ish sheen to it. They like it to black laquer, and the Japanese consider that very black luster to be very aesthetic.
>>25472617it's kind of splitting hairs when a bunch of people like Odysseus literally draw heritage straight from Zeus
>>25472106Simpsons did it
>>25473377Nice!
>>25473832Zeus was such a man-whore.
