Since we're at linguistics of colour you might want to know that in modern Greek, the word for "tanning" is "blackening". I don't disagree with the article bu

Since we're at linguistics of colour you might want to know that in modern Greek, the word for "tanning" is "blackening". I don't disagree with the article but I just want to make sure we all know ancient Greeks weren't actually black. You can argue that they weren't "white", at least with the modern American definitions, but there has never been any indication of them being black, you know, like Africans. It's not like their only difference with Caucasians is skin colour, you'd expect the morphological characteristics to show on sculptures too. The idea that Greeks were somehow black is purely the result of revisionist tendencies of modern African-American movements.