Weird - I just listened to the Radiolab episode about color, and they talk about Homer's use of color in the Odyssey and the Iliad. Apparently he never uses the color blue, and some people think he may have been colorblind. They also claim that the Bible, in Hebrew, never uses the color blue, either. But then they say that many ancient languages didn't have a word for blue, and they have a couple peculiar hypotheses about why.
http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/sky-isnt-blue/
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