In later stages of Greek it meant blue, but I also had read how for Homer it probably did not mean that. Here's a quote from the related Wikipedia entry: The w

In later stages of Greek it meant blue, but I also had read how for Homer it probably did not mean that. Here's a quote from the related Wikipedia entry: The word kyanós (κυανός), which in later stages of Greek meant blue, does make a limited appearance, but for Homer it almost certainly meant "dark", as it was used to describe the eyebrows of Zeus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea_(Homer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea_(Homer) Also see this 2015 paper: Wine-Dark Sheep: Ancient Color in a Modern Greek Odyssey https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=hcoltheses https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=111...