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In the ancient Greek world, Iliad presented the mythological hero Achilles as what was then the ideal male warrior: handsome, tall, strong, and blond. [2] In Western Europe during the Middle Ages , long and blonde hair was idealized as the paragon of female beauty.
Balius (/ ˈ b eɪ l i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Βάλιος, Balios, possibly "dappled") and Xanthus (/ ˈ z æ n θ ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ξάνθος, Xanthos, "blonde") were, according to Greek mythology, two immortal horses, the offspring of the harpy Podarge and the West wind, Zephyrus.
The so-called Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis is the head of a lost marble statue of a young man (Kouros or Ephebe sculpture type) of ca 480 BC, in the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece. [1] The head and part of the pelvis were found in 1923 northeast of the museum site on the Acropolis of Athens.
Detail of two men from a drinking party scene on an Attic red-figure calyx-krater (510-500 BC) [1]. In the earliest times the Greeks wore their kómē (κόμη; hair of the head) long, and thus Homer constantly calls them karēkomóōntes (κᾰρηκομόωντες; long-haired).
In Greek mythology, Xanthe (/ ˈ z æ n θ iː /; Ancient Greek: Ξανθή or Ξάνθη Xanthê means 'blond-haired' [1]) or Xantho may refer to the following divinity and women: Xanthe, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. [2]
As with the ancient Greeks, the ancient Romans saw whiteness as an important part of feminine beauty. [68] For example, in Virgil's Aeneid, Dido, the Phoenician queen of Carthage, and lover of Aeneas, is described as candida or "white". [82] Virgil also refers to the goddess Venus as having "snow white arms". [91]
Archaeologists opened an ancient Chinese tomb and found someone they never expected to see inside: a blonde, bearded man.
Helen (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, romanized: Helénē [b]), also known as Helen of Troy, [2] [3] or Helen of Sparta, [4] and in Latin as Helena, [5] was a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world.