Homer's Odyssey has PURPLE Sheep. =D

>>Yup! These sweeties are what the great cyclops, Polyphêmos, herds and keeps for their milk, wool, and probably eventually meat. The proof is in the poetry itself.

>>If you're curious as to what is happening when the hero, Odysseus, falls into the path of purple sheep, rather, rams...he is on his vastly long adventure home, he and his men rowing away trying to find any island from which to find where they are and thus plan how to get back to Ithaca, so they by chance land on an island of giant cyclopses, and unfortunately for them Poseidon's son Polyphêmos resides among them. (How Ocean God + Random Nymph = Giant Cyclops I have no idea.) They go in search of local life and run into Polyphêmos's cave, and from there they are eventually trapped. Polyphêmos gladly eats some of the men, intending to make all of them share the same fate. Odysseus, sly Odysseus, Athena's favorite, comes up with the plan to sharpen and heat a huge log, and when Polyphêmos is drunk enough off of their wine and sleepy enough to lean over, Odysseus and his men jab the point into his sole eye. Blindness makes Polyphêmos squirm, not to mention the burning sensation, and when he opens the cave once again he tells his fellow cyclopses that he was attacked by "Nohbdy". Very sly, that Odysseus.

>>How the men escape, though, is not by running quickly through the opening. There was not time enough to do so by the time Polyphêmos returned from talking to the others. Instead, Odysseus has this epiphany:

"[Odysseus] drew up all [his] wits, and ran through tactics,

reasoning as a man will for dear life,

until a trick came---and it pleased [him] well.

The Kyklops' rams were handsome, fat, with heavy

fleeces, a dark violet."

--Book 9, Lines 460-465

>>There you have it! PURPLE MAMMALS! Greek culture is so fun. Also, how they escaped with violet rams? They tied themselves to the bellies and were chauffeured right out, Polyphêmos never knowing the difference since he was blind. With such wit it's no wonder Athena prized Odysseus and his family so much.

>>By the way, if you're curious, the Ks in "Kyklops'" are due to translations making for funny spellings. It's referring to Polyphêmos. Cyclops. Kyklops. Hahaha. Speaking of translations, I ought to give credit to the man who reads in both Greek and English: Robert Fitzgerald. Never met ya, Robert, but I'm very grateful!

>>Lastly...BAAAA!