The "wine dark" description is a complex topic and not as simple as it would seem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea_(Homer) https://en.wikipedia.org

The "wine dark" description is a complex topic and not as simple as it would seem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea_(Homer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea_(Homer) Otherwise, you are right in the sense that the cultural "eyes" have changed over time, but I think you've entirely missed the basic point I'm making, which is simply that the visual image of the sea itself, as recorded by the eyes, is basically the same today as it was thousands of years ago, and how this feels like a link to the past. Note that I didn't write "the sea has always looked the same to people," I wrote, "looked the same." This is a different point. Of course, this opens a Pandora's box of philosophical questions about vision and cultural influence on sight, but this is a 500-word Substack post, not a thesis.