01-31-2015, 11:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-03-2016, 01:08 AM by Nathan Ross.)
Quote:flavus means yellow or golden... sufflavus... my dictionary defines as 'yellowish, flaxen'.
True, although the application of these terms to hair colour probably varied a lot more in practice, and our modern 'blonde' might be too narrow a definition. The Greek xanthos seemed to connote a spectrum of shades from sandy brown to reddish, and was used to describe everything from honey to cooking meat!
Here's Flora, from the famous fresco in Stabiae - perhaps an example of 'subflavus/sufflavus' hair?:
Nathan Ross