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The Colour Purple - Heinke Stulz: Die Farbe Purpur im frühen Griechentum beobachtet in der Literatur und in der bildenden Kunst. (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 6.) Pp. 205. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1990. Cased, DM 44.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2009

David Bain
David Bain
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University of Manchester
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The Classical Review , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , April 1994 , pp. 97 - 98
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page 97 note 1 He states that all the adjectives he discusses connote redness. Purple and red are treated by him as virtually interchangeable. In connection with , equated with by S. there ought to have been a discussion of Xenophanes' description of the rainbow (B 32.2) where the two colour-words are clearly not regarded as interchangeable.