Note 482 — Chapter V · THE DEMONOLOGY OF GHOSTS AND SPRITES AND BOGEYS.
Reading edition
Blue-black, κυάνεος, remained the traditional colour of the underworld, as in the Alcestis of Euripides (v. 262):
ὑπ’ ὀφρύσι κυαναυγέσι βλέπων πτερωτός—†αἵδας†.
Reading edition
Blue-black, κυάνεος, remained the traditional colour of the underworld, as in the Alcestis of Euripides (v. 262):
ὑπ’ ὀφρύσι κυαναυγέσι βλέπων πτερωτός—†αἵδας†.