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I heard someone mention yesterday the phrase from Homer, 'the wine-dark sea'. This has been quoted as suggesting that there was no word for blue in antiquity.
It was questioned that could it show a change in our perception overtime? He was not the only person to use this phrase to describe the sea.
My question further to this is art. Ask any decent artist and they can draw you a good representation of a human. However when we look back at art from 1000 years ago even the finest artist seem to not draw as well as an artist can today. Is this because of the style of the time or because people just didn't have the same level of perception as we do now? Or maybe the skills of drawing had just not developed?
It was questioned that could it show a change in our perception overtime? He was not the only person to use this phrase to describe the sea.
My question further to this is art. Ask any decent artist and they can draw you a good representation of a human. However when we look back at art from 1000 years ago even the finest artist seem to not draw as well as an artist can today. Is this because of the style of the time or because people just didn't have the same level of perception as we do now? Or maybe the skills of drawing had just not developed?