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[QUOTE]Originally posted by AlexandertheConqueror: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Tyrannosaurus: I never saw the movie, but I don't get the blond Alexander. I'm sure there were blond Macedonians back then (and they probably were fairer-haired and lighter-skinned than Greeks in general), but I thought he was supposed to be a brunette. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti Macedonia is immediately north or Greece. Both countries are in the Balkan peninsula of southeast Europe. Of course dark hair prevails throughout southern Europe along the Mediterranean. The frequency of lighter color hair increases the farther north one goes, but even in Macedonia blondes are not that common. Brown hair occurs more common than blonde hair. The "blondism" the movie portrays is just a vestige of the WASP/Nordism that was more prevalent back then than it is today. Of course you still have certain 'groups' who say the ancient Greeks who built Classical civilization were blonde Nordics, even though all evidence from the Greeks themselves show the opposite and that they associated blonde Nordics with primitive barbarianism. You are correct that the whole hair bleaching was a waste and nothing more than a perpetuation of the nordist fantasy. [/QUOTE]I'm sure Alexander had fair blondish-brown hair (probably more brunette than anything ;) ) [IMG]http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb83/RAchillesFury978/MacedonianLionhunt.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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