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and yet to the romans those with blonde or red hair where considered barbaric until their emperor had it, and it would be odd that in a culture, that if like the modern day was almost completely dark of hair and eyes, and tan of skin, that their gods would all be practically nordic looking in comparison...
Athena is known to be grey eyed, Apollo, and Achilles blonde haired xanthos is the word, yellow is its meaning.
I don't think its a coincidence that Alexander the great was noted as blonde of hair, its because of his royal heritage... The Spartans clearly had a caste culture, with Dorian warrior men at the top, and Ionian helots at the bottom, similar to early India, or the early Spanish colonial world. We shouldn't take the descriptions and evidence laid out before us by our ancestors as fantasy, or else risk tossing out the baby with the bath water.
If its true that there is a little truth in every story, then there must be more then a little in a history, even if written by the 'unscientific' ancients...
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