Tuft's Perseus confirms your second comment, and more interestingly, cites examples of kuanos from all of Hesiod's major works. Why would Hesiod have a word for

Tuft's Perseus confirms your second comment, and more interestingly, cites examples of kuanos from all of Hesiod's major works. Why would Hesiod have a word for dark bluish stuff and Homer lack one? They were written around the same time (some 200? years before Herodotus). Maybe the article should be re-titled "Why did Homer avoid kuanos and its derivatives?" http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/searchresults?la=greek&page=1&all_words=kua/neos&all_words_expand=yes http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/searchresults?la=greek&p...