Wine dark sea (Homer)
For other uses, see Wine dark sea.
The wine-dark sea is a traditional English translation of οἶνοψ πόντος (oinops pontos), an epithet in Homer of uncertain meaning. A literal translation is "wine-face sea". The only other use of oinops in the works of Homer is for oxen, where it seems to describe a reddish color, which has given rise to various speculations about what it could mean about the blue seas.
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References
- Wilford, John Noble (December 20, 1983). "Homer's Sea: Wine Dark?". The New York Times. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
- Alexander, Caroline (Summer 2013). "A Winelike Sea". Lapham’s Quarterly. VI (3).
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