Wine-dark sea (Homer)
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title:
Wine-dark sea (Homer)
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Wine-dark sea is a traditional English translation of oînops póntos, from oînos + óps, a Homeric epithet. A literal translation is "wine-faced sea". It is attested five times in the Iliad and twelve times in the Odyssey often to describe rough, stormy seas. The only other use of oînops in the works of Homer is for oxen, for which is it used once in the Iliad and once in the Odyssey, where it describes a reddish colour. The phrase has become a common example when talking about the use of colour i
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Translation of phrase attributed to Homer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea_(Homer)
date created:
2016-06-24T13:40:04Z
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2024-09-14T13:31:24Z
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