Article ID: CBB160650047

Introduction - Medicine and colour (2020)

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The perceptual experience of colour is necessarily defined in relation to the anthropological-cultural context which produces it. The Greek world is not an exception. The archetypal paradigm of the Homeric poems provides remarkable examples of how the words used to express colours, are closely related to the concreteness of the object, that is the vehicle of the colour itself. Only at a later time, thanks to the refined associative pathways of poetry, the nouns used to define the colours acquire the general and abstract value that we know.

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Authors & Contributors
Baldin, Maurizio
Guichard, Luis Arturo
Effie Photos-Jones
Lopez, Francesco
Soardi, Marzia
Diana Quarantotto
Concepts
Medicine
Color
Natural philosophy
Philosophy
Hippocratic medicine
Physics
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Places
Egypt
Hellenistic world
Mediterranean region
Europe
Rome (Italy)
Alexandria (Egypt)
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