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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/Dead/Krom/Atlantid: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Punos_Rey: [qb] You can't have it both ways. Either melas allows for a range of darker pigmentation as does the word leukos for lighter, or it allows only for a very limited light brown pigmentation. You're saying melanchroes as applied to Egyptians only allowed for light brown skin, which is patently ridiculous given people like Tiye, Senusret I, Amenhotep III, et all who trended towards the even darker end of that range. What color is Tiye??? She was from Akhmim in Upper Egypt btw not North Sudan. [/qb][/QUOTE]I'm saying melanchroos when applied to- Individual Greeks like Odysseus = sunburnt or faint light brown. Egyptians as an average = light brown to medium brown Nubians as an average = dark brown i.e black There is overlap with the two colours i.e. the lightest spectrum of melas with the darkest spectrum of leukos, meaning the lightest brown shades like the barley crop I posted. Colours of course grade into each other, this is to be expected. In contrast the afrocentric model is everyone melanchroos in Africa = black and completely ignore the skin colour variation cline in the Nile valley running from the nile delta, to upper Egypt, to Sudan "Ancient Egyptians, like their modern descendants, varied in complexion from a light Mediterranean type, to a light brown in Middle Egypt, to a darker brown in southern Egypt." (Snowden, 1997) On the average, between the Delta in northern Egypt and the Sudan of the Upper Nile, skin color tends to darken from light brown to what appears to the eye as bluish black." (Trigger, B. [1978]. “Nubian, Negro, Black, Nilotic?”. Wenig, Steffen (ed.). In: Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan. Brooklyn Museum, New York.) [/qb][/QUOTE]Every argument you post has been debunked already, why do you go in circles? It's just ridiculous, foolish and stupid! [QUOTE] Were the ancient Greeks and Romans colour blind? Wednesday 19 February 2014 11:50AM Homer left historians with the impression that the ancient Greeks and Romans had an underdeveloped appreciation of colour. The ancients, in fact, were a shade more sophisticated than that and understood colour in a completely different way to us, argues Mark Bradley Gladstone noted that Homer actually uses very few colour terms, that black and white predominate, and that he uses the same colours to describe objects which look quite different. According to Bradley, the Greeks viewed chroma (in Latin color) as essentially the visible outermost shell of an object. So a table wouldn't be brown, it was wood-coloured. A window would be glass-coloured. Hair would be hair-coloured, skin would be skin-coloured. 'They wouldn't talk in terms of the abstract colours that we are used to today.' The term 'synaesthetic' can be used to broadly describe the different kind of association that the ancient Greeks made between the five senses. 'If colours are the external manifestations of objects, then the perception of that colour can tap into other ideas such as smell, liquidity, saturation, touch, texture.' In what we would tend to think of as purely visual, the ancient Greeks brought other senses into play. 'In antiquity, in pre-modern societies, there is much more capacity for the way you describe the world to tap into several different senses simultaneously,' says Bradley. So what of Homer's wine-dark sea (oinops pontos)? Bradley describes this as antiquity's best-known colour problem and one that's given rise to various theories. One interpretation is that it describes the sea at sunset when it's a sort of fiery red. Another interpretation hold that it's an allusion to a now obsolete type of French wine called le petit bleu or le gros bleu, a blue wine, which, if it even existed in antiquity, might explain the metaphor. [/QUOTE]—Amanda Smith http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bodysphere/features/5267698 So, tell how did Homer describe these? [IMG]http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/89163535.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921CC759DF4EBAC47D084C44BBFB765226CAEF02E07F61A42B3C3A0197F54A62E63[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1420/935035527_ce945bf4de_z.jpg?zz=1[/IMG] [IMG]http://tinyurl.com/3f29svm[/IMG] http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=009586;p=3#000125 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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