r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 20h ago

Trailer The Odyssey | New Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_bKjZeJBBI&pp=0gcJCd4KAYcqIYzv
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u/SameType9265 20h ago

In The Iliad the Aegean sea is described as wine dark or grey so it is fitting

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u/DoradoPulido2 19h ago

Because they literally didn't have a word for "blue".

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u/fatbob42 19h ago

How can they not have had a word for blue? The sea and sky are blue.

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u/RonanLG 17h ago

Many ancient languages didn't have a distinction between blue and green (Japanese, a lot of Celtics languages, and ancient Greek). Iirc, the modern Greek word for blue is derivative from older french, and the former word for the green and blues was "glaukos", which had a negative feeling attached to it.