Were the Ancient Greeks Color blind? | Ancient Greece Revisited

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What was the connection between Ancient Greeks and color blindness?
Overlooking the sea under a bright Greek sky, it is impossible to think that Homer, the greatest poet of Ancient Greece, could have missed this ever-present color that bathes the scenery... blue. And yet, he did, together with everyone else in antiquity. How can we even begin to make sense of this? Could the Ancient Greeks have been color blind? One distinguished scholar and politician, William Gladstone, actually though so...