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Ruth’s Reviews: Through the Language Glass

Back in 1858, William Gladstone wrote a three-volume tome on Homer. Volume three contains a chapter concerning the limited use of colour in the Iliad and the Odyssey that triggered a debate about whether nature or culture shapes and controls language.

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