Comparative criticism on color element in Homer odyssey & Ferdowsi's Shahname

Comparative literature discusses the general links between world literature & expresses original elements of each nation by penetrating the different aspects of literature in order to find out foreign elements importance and every nation's literature characteristics. Colors in form of comparative, have not been analyzed and compared in Homer and Shahname. Accordingly, the present paper surveys the different applied colors in two mentioned epics in comparative method to obtain cognition and the importance of color in two different cultures in order to identify the application share of this fundamental element (color) in two different time and era.