Demeter (Iliad, bk. 5, v. 576) whose “golden hair flowed over her shoulders” (Homeric Hymn 2).
Harmonia is described as “golden-haired” (Medea, by Euripides).
There is Apollo whose “clusters of golden hair swung loose and swept down over either cheek.” (Argonautica, bk. 2, v. 882-883) He is also described as such in The Suppliants, “golden-haired Apollo”.
Athena is Zeus’s “darling gray-eyed girl” (Iliad, bk. 8, v. 427), “with flashing sea-gray eyes” (Odyssey, bk. 2, v. 476), or even “blue-eyed” (Heracleidae).
Dionysus is “golden-haired” (Theogony, v. 947).
Artemis “golden-haired child of Zeus” (Euripides, Phoenician woman ; 411 B.C)
There is “blue-eyed Amphitrite” (Odyssey, bk, 12, v. 67).
Hera has “dark eyes” (Iliad, bk. 1, v. 661) and is “bright-haired” (bk. 10, v. 6).
Heracles has “yellow hair” (Euripides , Heracles 416 BCE)
Nemesis has blue eyes (Mesomedes Hymn to Nemesis)
Rhadamanthus “yellow-haired” (Homer Odyssey ; 750 B.C)
Thetis “fair-haired” (Homer Liad , 750 B.C)
Achilles “long yellow hair” (Homer Liad , 750 B.C)
Odysseus “yellow hair” (Homer , odyssey ; 750 B.C)
Helen of Troy has “golden hair” (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, 410 B.C)
Graces (daughters of Zeus) “fair-haired” and “bright eyed” (Pindar, pythian ; 472 B. C.)
Selene is grey-eyed (Dionysiaca 5.70).
Meanwhile Hades (GOD OF DEATH) is dark-haired (Homeric Hymn 2.347).
Ancient Greeks weren’t blonde, their gods and heroes certainly were, why?
