Re: [tied] Re: The indo european "race"

Homerus used usually the word "xanthos" for many characters (Helena, for example). This world is currently translated as "yellow", so "blond", but it's more probable that means "brown".

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> Siglo: > >By the way, how can you tell he was mediterranean and darker skinned > >if the surviving statues have no color any longer? > Ever seen painted pottery before?? Even texts are no great help. Latin and Greek colour words are notoriously difficult to interpret ("purple snow" etc). Just what would "flavus" mean applied to hair? Anything from mouse to honey to mud to ginger (rufus). It is applied to the sea (Ennius), and the Tiber. What is being translated as "blond" may simply be "light brown". Peter

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