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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/Dead/Krom/Atlantid: [QB] @ Punos Rey I made the same error of using those translations 5-6 years ago. This is what layperson's do. However, if you study ancient Greek colour terms at a more academic level you will realise leukos does not strictly translate as white, and melas/melan not strictly as black. These terms are more ambiguous and cover a wider spectrum of shades/colours, so when they are applied to skin colour - melanchroos applied to Egyptian skin was a colour as light as bronze or a light brown. read my posts here- [QUOTE] 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.[/QUOTE]And [see especially the Gladstone quote]: [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]." [/QUOTE]Do you see I am consistently applying this? If you're saying melanchroos is black when applied to Egyptians, then you run into the problem that Greek deities are actually white, when the truth is the Greeks depicted their gods in their image as a faint light brown or olive complexion. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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