---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [tips] Re: Spleen or liver Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:04:46 -0500
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Was the ancient Greek method of alluding to substances(humors) to >>classify personality types based on the spleen or the liver? >> >> >There were typically four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile >(choler), >and black bile (melancholer). The sources of the first three are >obvious. There continues to be debate to this day about exactly what >black bile was and where it came from. Livers and spleens have both >been >put forward as possible candidates. Remember, the Ancient Greeks did >not >have exactly the same categories as we do (certainly not in the realm >of >"biology" -- a category which, incidentally, did not exist for them), >so >there may not be a clear answer to your question in terms of modern >English-language categories. > >Cross-culturally yours, >Chris >-- >Christopher D. Green >Department of Psychology >York University >Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 >Canada > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ >phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164 >fax: 416-736-5814 > > My understanding was that the humors accounted for the four races: yellow bile (Chinese),black bile (Africans),phlegm (Europeans), and only the Greeks had blood. Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
