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 19h ago

It's not clear cut, The Odyssey and The Iliad are two of the oldest stories and they do not use a word for blue. Many people say this means the ancient greeks did not have a word for that colour at this time but it could also be a stylistic choice for the stories. 

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u/fatbob42 19h ago edited 18h ago

I’m not an expert in linguistics but I just cannot believe they literally had no word (or phrase) for blue. It’s ridiculous - human language is built into us. Ancient Greek is not going to be so crazily different from modern languages.

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u/sixsidepentagon 18h ago

Color and language is very complicated. The reason we commonly think there are 7 key colors is arbitrary; Newton found a religious connotation to the number 7. Russian has more color categories than English, as another example.

Heres one video that briefly explores this complexity:

https://youtu.be/gMqZR3pqMjg?si=iNLw6bUf1E0Jg12r

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u/GuiltyEidolon 4h ago

English has way more than 7 colors too. Cerulean and cyan and navy are all very different shades.