Chromatic dialogues: colour and culture in Homer, Herodotus and the Hebrew Bible

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Chromatic dialogues: colour and culture in Homer, Herodotus and the Hebrew Bible

Colour and culture are closely intertwined. Yet ancient texts – such as Homeric epic, Herodotus’ Histories and the Hebrew Bible – are still translated and interpreted with the assumption that the ancients perceived, classified and understood colour in the same way we do today. The conceptualisation...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lyell, Ellena
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2021
Subjects:	Homer Herodotus Old Testament colour colour perception purple
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64742/

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