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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JoshuaConnerMoon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: [qb] To quote one of my favourite posters: The reference to Black skinned and woolly haired Egyptians has been translated as such in Herodutus Histories not only by Rawlinson, but Aubrey De Selincourt and most others and indeed, I am unaware of any African translation of Herodotus the Histories. The idea that "Black skinned and woolly haired" is an "Afrocentric" interpretation is therefore a non-starter. And the notion of intepreting Herodotus in some other way (where Black does not mean "Black" is largely a sop to Eurocentric political correctness and disingenuousness- re-writing the Histories. [/qb][/QUOTE]Because those scholars are/were not experts in ancient Greek colour. The experts do not automatically translate melas as black and leukos as white. An example is the Iliad. 20. 496 where barley is described as leukos. [IMG]https://abm-website-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/laboratoryequipment.com/s3fs-public/legacyimages/Resources/Laboratory_News/0511_lw_barley.jpg[/IMG] Does this look white to you? Leukos ranges from chalk-white to a faint light brown like barley [in context this would explain Greek leukos-armed godesses, not as pale-white but a faint brown]. Similarly we find melas used to describe things that are not pitch-black or dark brown, but shades that are lighter brown. but experts who examine this stuff in better context of ancient Greek colour terminology are "Eurocentrists"... :rolleyes: [/QB][/QUOTE]
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