The Greek colour experience was made of movement and shimmer. Can we ever glimpse what they saw when gazing out to sea?

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Homer used two adjectives to describe aspects of the colour blue: kuaneos, to denote a dark shade of blue merging into black; and glaukos, to describe a sort of ‘blue-grey’, notably used in Athena’s epithet glaukopis, her ‘grey-gleaming eyes’.