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" Buskin or a Tennyson in the contemplation of sunsets or the description of liverworts. Living forms and living motions are the grand material of the epic poet ; the broad effects of light and shade in connexion with these are the only phenomena of colour... "
Homer and the Iliad [tr. in verse, with notes] by J.S. Blackie - Página 416
por Homerus - 1866
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Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age: Agorè : polities of the homeric age ...

William Ewart Gladstone - 1858 - 652 páginas
...colours, as the condition of its being able closely to appreciate any one among them. I conclude, then, that the organ of colour and its impressions were but partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age. In lieu of this, Homer seems to have had, firstly some crude conceptions...
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Points of Contact Between Science and Art ...

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1863 - 132 páginas
...Mr. Gladstone, in his chapter on " Colour in Homer," (ib., p. 489,) acknowledges : "I conclude, then, that the organ of colour and its impressions were but partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age." Surely this is incompatible with the love or appreciation of natural...
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Notes

John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 470 páginas
...another when you have it in your hand ; so VOL. IV. 2 D Homer may call mm ToAios. aiOiav, and ioeis, and be more true to nature than if he had always designated...word signifying either green or light-blue. The word xAwpos, which signifies green in the Odyssey (xvi. 47), if it does not rather signify fresh and juicy...
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Homer and the Iliad, Volumen1

John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 464 páginas
...consider that the art which he practised in those days did not require him to have the eye of a Buskin or a Tennyson in the contemplation of sunsets or the...word signifying either green or light-blue. The word xAupos, which signifies green in the Odyssey (xvi. 47), if it does not rather signify fresh and juicg...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volumen7

Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1879 - 550 páginas
...establishing generally a great vagueness in their use, and concludes on the whole, we think fairly enough, that ' the organ of colour and its impressions were but partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age.' With regard to the pathos of musical sound Homer is feebler still,...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volumen7

1879 - 562 páginas
...establishing generally a great vagueness in their use, and concludes on the whole, we think fairly enough, that ' the organ of colour and its impressions were but partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age.' With regard to the pathos of musical sound Homer is feebler still,...
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Die Welt Der Farben

Adolf Portmann, Rudolf Ritsema - 1974 - 512 páginas
...the Greeks as a race suffered from a form of colour-blindness.2 Somewhat similarly, Gladstone argued that "the organ of colour and its impressions were but partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age", because colours, both natural and artificial, played a less prominent...
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