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Re: OT: terms for people with different hair colours

From:Hanuman Zhang <zhang@...>
Date:Thursday, October 23, 2008, 14:41
on 10/23/08 6:07 AM, Mark J. Reed at markjreed@GMAIL.COM wrote:

> White-history.com? That's a scary domain name...
Esp'ly since that latest genetic science proves that the "white race" is a myth, a social construct dating to the 19th century's Social Darwinism, eugenics, WASP anti-immigrant sentiments, etc. Scarier is the StormFront website...
> On 10/23/08, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote: >> Eldin Raigmore wrote: >>> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:48:40 +0200, Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> >>> wrote: >> [snip] >>>> Homer used various epithets to characterise his gods and other >>>> characters, and some of them were about hair colour. It won't take >>>> you long to find them in the Iliad at least. >>>> LEF >>> It might not take _you_ long, but _I_ don't read Greek and don't have a >>> copy >>> of a translation. >>> :-( >> >> You can download Samuel Butler's translation free from: >> http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2199 >> >> It's a 19th century translation, and not the translation I'd recommend, >> but it's better than nothing :) >> >> If you want to part with cash, then I'd suggest Richmond Lattimore's >> translation - University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-46940-9 (paperback >> - there's a hard backed version too, but I don't have the ISBN for that). >> >> As for hair color in the Iliad, cf. >> http://www.white-history.com/homer01.htm >> >> -- >> Ray >> ================================== >> http://www.carolandray.plus.com >> ================================== >> Frustra fit per plura quod potest >> fieri per pauciora. >> [William of Ockham] >>

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