...c. xiii. (1856). Mr. Gladstone, in his chapter on " Colour in Homer," (ib., p. 489,) acknowledges : "I conclude, then, that the organ of colour and its...partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age." Surely this is incompatible with the love or appreciation of natural beauty. appreciated among the...

...prepared to admit. (8.) Under these limitations Mr. Gladstone's doctrine may be generally accepted, that " the organ of colour and its impressions were but partially developed in the heroic ages." The very fact that the language of Homer has no special word for black seems to...

...prepared to admit. (8.) Under these limitations Mr. Gladstone's doctrine may be generally accepted, that " the organ of colour and its impressions were but partially developed in the heroic ages." The very fact that the language of Homer has no special word for black seems to...

...establishing generally a great vagueness in their use, and concludes on the whole, we think fairly enough, that ' the organ of colour and its impressions were...partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age.' With regard to the pathos of musical sound Homer is feebler still, as compared with Pindar, for instance....

...establishing generally a great vagueness in their use, and concludes on the whole, we think fairly enough, that ' the organ of colour and its impressions were...partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age.' With regard to the pathos of musical sound Homer is feebler still, as compared with Pindar, for instance....

...Homeric times any clear notions of color whatever. "I conclude," he says, "that the organ of color and its impressions were but partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age." This hypothesis of Gladstone was made more precise and given a definite evolutionary character by Geiger,...

...in color lexicons reflect differences in perceptual abilities, for example, "that the organ of color and its impressions were but partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age" (see Berlin and Kay 1969:135). The opthalmologist Hugo Magnus recognized that failure to distinguish...

...the Greeks as a race suffered from a form of colour-blindness.2 Somewhat similarly, Gladstone argued that "the organ of colour and its impressions were...partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age", because colours, both natural and artificial, played a less prominent role in the visual environment...

...das Lat., so daß sich als Reaktion auf die berühmten Ausführungen von WE Gladstone (7, bes. S. 488 „the organ of colour and its impressions were but...partially developed among the Greeks of the heroic age") eine langandauernde Diskussion um die angebliche partielle Farbenblindheit der Griechen und Rom. entwickeln...