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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.
Your understanding is, as far as I know this topic, incorrect. First, I
don't think the Ancient Greeks has any knowledge of the Chinese at all.
Second, the Greek are Europeans (though there was no understanding of
Europe, as we think of it today. What we think if a "the" races today
were unknown to the Greeks. When they spoke in roughly racial terms, it
had more to do with what we would think of a nationalities -- the
Lybians are this, the Egyptians are that, the Phoenicians are something
else again, and those from north of Macedonia, they're just plain
barbarians. :-)
There may be some talk somewhere of the *balance* of humors being
different among the different race-nationalities, and accounting for
some of the alleged behavioral differences among them (I don't have a
reference off the top of my head), but that everyone (who was alive) had
all four humors was aximoatic.
Regards,
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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