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Goethe

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I'm trying to get some reliable sources for this. There is a lot of speculation. Anyway, it seems that Goethe did some writing on this, in his Theory of Colours, which might be worth mentioning (just because of his stature, whether or not it's plausible reasoning). But I don't have any first-hand or second-hand references for that. Any help? TomS TDotO (talk) 15:00, 2 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting discussion of this online

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Here is another good discussion of this topic: http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2016/01/colours-in-homer-2-wine-dark-sea.html -- The Anome (talk) 06:53, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Development of Color Terms in Language

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 They hypothesized that early in a language's development of color terminology, languages would only have a few words for basic colors: 

I changed "early a language's" to "early in a language's". I hope that was a good interpolation on my part. David Deardavid7 (talk) 11:42, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Why is there no mention of the sea looking like dark white wine in this article?

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Underneath the reflection of the sky, the color of seawater looks like a darker version of white wine? Shouldn't that at least be mentioned amongst all the tangential discussion of the color blue? Slicehyperfunk (talk) 13:18, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Possible citation for alkaline water theory

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https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/20/science/homer-s-sea-wine-dark.html

IDK if a NYT article is appropriate for this sort of citation, but it also has researcher names that could be followed up on for papers or whatnot. 2603:3003:2471:0:0:0:0:D547 (talk) 17:28, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 13 September 2024

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. DAB was moved to Wine Dark Sea. (closed by non-admin page mover) Reading of Beans 14:46, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]


– The Homeric phrase is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for wine-dark sea. It maintains a strong lead in pageviews (3,038 monthly average pageviews vs. 920 for all other topics combined, ever since this article was moved to its current title in 2019), and as a well-known idiom from Homeric poetry it also has greater long-term significance than the other topics that share its name. ModernDayTrilobite (talkcontribs) 14:10, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.