Uploaded February 2019 | Updated September 2026, 22 hours ago

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In this episode, Jessie Craft speaks with David Wharton about color terms in antiquity with a focus on Latin color terms.

David Wharton is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dr. Wharton is interested in the light that linguistics can shed on the study of Latin literature, and his recent research has focused on the lexical semantics of Latin. His current book project is called Latin Color in Context, a reassessment of the Latin color vocabulary in light of recent linguistic and anthropological research on color terms across the world’s languages.

To learn more about Dr. David Wharton: https://classics.uncg.edu/faculty/wharton/

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Song: Hollow
Artist: Lish Grooves

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