The tints of a rough sea range from ‘whitish’ ( polios) and ‘blue-grey’ ( glaukos) to deep blue and almost black ( kuaneos, melas). He describes the sky as big, starry, or of iron or bronze (because of its solid fixity). Homer used two adjectives to describe aspects of the colour blue: kuaneos, to denote a dark shade of blue merging into black and glaukos, to describe a sort of ‘blue-grey’, notably used in Athena’s epithet glaukopis, her ‘grey-gleaming eyes’.
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