I prefer this reading: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/sea/winelike-sea https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/sea/winelike-sea > Rather than being ignorant of colo

I prefer this reading: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/sea/winelike-sea https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/sea/winelike-sea > Rather than being ignorant of color, it seems that the Greeks were less interested in and attentive to hue, or tint, than they were to light. As late as the fourth century BC, Plato named the four primary colors as white, black, red, and bright, and in those cases where a Greek writer lists colors “in order,” they are arranged not by the Newtonian colors of the rainbow [..] but from lightest to darkest. > The phrase “winelike,” then, had little to do with color but must have evoked some attribute of dark wine that would resonate with an audience familiar with the sea [..] such as the glint of surface light on impenetrable darkness, like wine in a terracotta vessel. (located at about 70% of the text. Ctrl-F "Plato" for the impatient)