Agnes wrote on Jun 10
th, 2016 at 5:55pm:
Ajax, man or woman, if you are Greek, you are not a redhead- that is a caucasion male, with natural red hair.
Dear Agnes there are Greeks that are dark (a small population under Turkish rule for 400 years didn't help) but the ancient Greeks had blonde hair and blue eyes.
There are many Greeks that are fair today and we also have rangers.
Hard to believe..?? well its true... I'm living proof and I've met other Greeks (not many) the same, red hair and lots of freckles.
I suppose we're breeding that Turk gene out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThraciansNordic Greece
http://www.theapricity.com/earlson/history/hellas.htm Quote:The study of Greek literature which Sieglin (1935) performed, has demonstrated that many individuals in the elites of ancient Greece, had blond or red hair.
For instance, Alcibiades, Alexander the Great, Critias, Demetrius of Phalerum, King Lysimachus, Ptolemy II Philadelphus and King Pyrrhus, were all fair-haired individuals.
Dionysius I, the ruler of Syracuse, had blond hair and freckles, whilst the Athenian playwright Euripides, also had a fair and freckled complexion. [Günther (1956).]
Some critics have attempted to claim that the Greek word “ksanthos” (xanthos), means “brown-haired”, rather than “blond-haired”. However, a recent article by Moonwomon (1994), on colour-meaning in ancient Greek, reveals that the word did in fact mean blond.