What did a kiss mean in an ancient Roman marriage ceremony? Detailed answer

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What did a kiss mean in an ancient Roman marriage ceremony?

The custom of kissing the newlyweds at the end of the marriage ceremony came to us from ancient Rome. Then it had a slightly different meaning - the wedding was seen as a contract, and the kiss served as a kind of seal that sealed the contract.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What was the color of the sky in ancient Greece?

Bronze. There is no word for "blue" in ancient Greek.

The closest words, glaukos and kyanos, are more an expression of the relative intensity of light and dark than an attempt to describe color.

The famous ancient Greek poet Homer in the poems "Iliad" and "Odyssey" mentions only four actual colors, roughly translated as black, white, greenish-yellow (in relation to honey, vital juices and blood) and purple-red.

When Homer calls the sky "bronze", he is referring to its dazzling brightness (like the gleam of a shield) rather than its "bronze color". In a similar spirit, the poet regards wine, the sea and sheep: they are all described in one color - "purple-red".

Aristotle singled out seven color shades, and all of them, in his opinion, came from black and white, but these latter, in his understanding, are not degrees of color, but brightness.

It is interesting that both the ancient Greek, who lived 2500 years ago, and the modern "rovers" of NASA approach the issue of color in almost the same way.

In Darwin's era, a theory was put forward that the ancient Greeks' retinas were not sufficiently developed to perceive colors. However, today it is believed that the ancient Greeks grouped objects based not on color, but on qualities, so that the word that was supposed to mean "yellow" or "light green" actually meant "liquid", "fresh" and "live" - and, accordingly, was used to describe the blood, the life juice of a person.

In fact, all this is not such a rare occurrence as one might expect. There are more languages on the islands of Papua New Guinea than anywhere else, but in many of them, apart from the distinction between light and dark, there are no other words for color.

In the classical Welsh (Welsh) language, there were no words that convey colors such as brown, gray, blue and green. The color spectrum was divided quite differently. One word (glas) covered part of the green, another the rest of the green, all blue, blue and some of the gray, and the third dealt with the remains of the gray and more or less of the brown.

Modern Welsh uses the word glas in the meaning of English blue, but in Russian there is no single word equivalent to English blue. The Russian language uses two words - blue and blue - which are usually translated into English as light blue and dark blue, while for the Russians themselves these are two completely separate, different colors, and not different shades of the same.

In all languages, color terminology develops in the same way. The third, after black and white, is usually called red, the fourth and the fifth are green and yellow (in one order or another), the sixth - blue (blue) and the seventh - brown. In modern Welsh, by the way, there is no word for brown.

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