[SonOfDarkSkies]

I remember reading somewhere that, according to Homer's (probably pseudepigraphical) writings, color perception of ancient Greeks was quite limited compared to that of modern man (actually limited to a narrow band of color spectrum perception--or something like that). Makes me wonder if this ultraviolet process isn't a bit off base.

Not sure if this is still held to be true...just thought it was worth mentioning.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

That’s interesting, and probably true — the ability to *perceive* something, involves much more than the ability to *sense* it. I doubt that the retinas of the ancients’ eyes were any different than those of modern man — but, how they filtered and processed visual information could have been quite different.

[GAB-1955]

It wasn't that they couldn't see the colors. They didn't have names for the colors. What was blue to us included purple to them. Of course, I can see them doing the #800020-dark sea.

[dsc]

” color perception of ancient Greeks was quite limited compared to that of modern man”

How could we know that? I mean, I don’t even know if you experience the same thing I do when light in the green bandwidth strikes your cone cells and your brain processes the information. You could be experience what I do when I see red, or you could be experiencing something totally outside my ken.