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Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 21:13:46 +0200
Subject: Re: Aristotle and Pliny on long hair
From: Pierre Cordier <pierre.cordier@free.fr>
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le 28/05/01 17:36, Ulrich Schmitzer =E0 uhschmit@phil.uni-erlangen.de a
=E9crit=A0:

> Dear list,
> here is a question that I received from medieval historian (the
> translation of the German text is my own):
> Aristotle and Pliny report that long-haired men have more virility
> and that loss of hair and baldness are connected with loss of
> semen.
>=20
> If have not found explicit references for this opinion. Who can help?
> I will pass the answers along to her.
>=20
> Thank you in advance
> U.S.
> PD Dr. Ulrich Schmitzer
> Institut fuer Alte Sprachen - Latein
> Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
> http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p2latein/home.html
>=20
Dear colleague,

You can find a old but useful selection of references and a short commentar=
y
in R. B. Onians, The Origins of European Thought, Cambridge U. P., 1951, p.
232.

Onians quotes=A0:=20
Aristotle, Fr. VII, 285,8 and Probl. 880 a 35 sqq.
Pliny, Nat. Hist. XI 39, 229 sqq.

You can see also=A0:
Hippocr., De nat. pueri, ed. Kuehn XXI, p. 400 (according to Hippocrates,
the eunuchs can not lose their hair because baldness is connected with the
hot sperm produced during the sexual act).

According to Macrobius, Sat. 7, 78, the absence of hair results from the
lack of bodily heat.

Truly yours,


Pierre Cordier
Departement des Sciences humaines =8B=A0Histoire ancienne
universite de Poitiers
8, rue R. Descartes 86022 Poitiers CEDEX
t=E9l. 05 49 45 47 88 (secretariat)

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