Was Homer Blue?

If you don't tell a child what color the sky is, she will probably say it is white. She has to be taught that the sky and water are blue, because much of the time they are not. I learned this from my car radio.

Homer famously called the sea "wine-red" (or was it wine-dark?).  In all of Homer nothing is called blue. Worse, in every ancient language nothing is called blue. There was no word for blue until fairly recently. "Blue" is the last basic color name to enter any language with the exception of Ancient Egyptian. The Egyptians  knew how to make the color blue, so they gave it a moniker. 

Not much is blue when you think about it.