[Dragaera] Aliera's hair and the problem of translation

[Philip Hart]

From
https://aeon.co/essays/when-homer-envisioned-achilles-did-he-see-a-black-man

   Achilles is said in the Iliad to have _xanthos_ hair. This word is often
   translated as "blond", a translation that gives a powerful steer to the
   modern imagination. But translation can be deceptive. As Maria Michel
   Sassi's essay for Aeon makes clear, the Greek colour vocabulary simply
   doesn"t map directly onto that of modern English. _Xanthos_ could be
   used for things that we would call "brown", "ruddy", "yellow" or
   "golden".

https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-greeks-saw-their-world