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[QUOTE]Originally posted by beyoku: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by JoshuaConnerMoon: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: The word melanchroes (not melas) was used to describe the ancient Egyptians and has been rightly translated as black, much to your chagrin. [/QUOTE]The suffix chroes/chros means skin, while melan/melas refers to a dark colour range; it is not limited to black. And the first appearance of the word melanchroos in classical literature (Homer) is describing Odysseus (a native Greek from Ithaca), not a black. To quote the classicist W.E.Gladstone- "Oyusseus, on his restoration to beauty by Athene, becomes melanchroos (Od. xvi. 171). The melanchroos [p.377] of his herald, in Od. xix. 245, does not seem to bear any different sense. Homer's [b]melas means dark rather than black[/b], and is itself but indefinite; we are obliged to take these words as referring to an [b]olive complexion[/b]." [/qb][/QUOTE]I see plenty of black folks here. Not all of them of course.....but plenty of them. I have been to Egypt. If you go to Egypt with the idea that no black people exist.....you are going to be disappointed and NOT because you find Nubians. You will be equally disappointed when you step into Ethiopia looking for caucasoids. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=QnyCGiwGGSQ [/QB][/QUOTE]
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