When it comes to the order colours are mentioned, more commonly, red is first and blue is last. Blue is rare in nature. There is no blue in Homer. Gladstone finds this in all ancient Greek manuscripts, that is, he doesn't find blue. He has an explanation for how we 'got' blue that is almost Lamarkian. Other philologists similarly fail to find blue in ancient texts from other cultures. No blue.
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Ahh ... I'm not seeing this on the Site. It came through ok on my private channel ... but it's stealthed from the Site itself. Aye Carumba!
Anyway, what I was going to say in light of it was:
I remembered from Uni days reading Homer and his talk of "the wine-red sea", & how that stimulated debate about whether vision-perception had changed these past few millennia, or whether the Aegean had actually been a different colour. Can't remember now if anyone had a knockout blow, but hard to believe the sea would have changed composition. (They hardly had an Exxon back in those days.)
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