Why did the greeks like blonde hair so much? hardly any

It was associated with heavenly and deity qualities

probably why it was spread as a trait in the first place

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Everybody likes blonde hair. Especially on women.

>>2378610
>Short hair

>>2378610
that young lad has quite the buzzum

>>2378610
This woman is a Jewess.

>>2378628
niceee

>>2378610
This honestly. To the Greeks, blond hair wasn't an unimaginably foreign concept nor was it usual. It was exotic. You may as well ask why ancient Celts dyed their hair red.

Apollo is the sun god. His blonde hair resembles the light waves of the sun. Note that he is still depicted with brown eyes rather than blue.

Needless to say, some Greeks are blonde and quite a few are light eyed. Especially green eyes are common in Greece.

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>>2378628
>implying "she's" a woman

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>>2378756
>>2378620

Wait a minute.....

That a trap????

fug....

>>2378596
>>2378741

it was common enough that all ancient greeks would have known blond people or seen them around often enough. There were probably no less adult male blonds in ancient greece then there are in america or australia today

>>2378741

they dyed their hair blonde, germans dyed their hair red

>>2378610
That's a ginger tho. A very cute one.

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>>2378596
irony is that the Persians were probably lighter.

>>2381368
>they dyed their hair blonde, germans dyed their hair red
But my point still stands. Blond hair was exotic and like all things exotic it was view'd with interest.

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>>2381704
they do portray Persians as ginger (the one with clothes), but so does greeks

>>2378596
artistic trend?

>>2378617
>No dick

>>2378596
The Greek nobility migrated from the Danube baisin, of course they had lighter features.

>>2378596
>Why did the greeks like blonde hair so much? hardly any of them even had/have it

Blonde hair was stereotypically associated with Macedon, northern Greece and generally all lands north of Boeotia. Because that's where Olympus is, it was customary to depict deities looking like folks from over there. Their difference from Greeks in southern city-states gave the deities that "otherwordly" look.

Post the pic with the blonde dude who says "my ancenstors" and bunch of old greek frescos.

>>2381704
Alans or Alani were Blondes. They were the Western Iranians.