Caesar\'s hair colour

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Some people (for example Colleen McCullough in her novel Caesar) have argued that 'nigris oculis' might have ment black ring around iris, which makes one's eyes look quite piercing. That would be good explanation why Caesar would have had "fair complexion" with "black eyes". Eyes could have actually been blue or brown or green, etc, but the black ring would immediately catch the eye, so to speak.

In the novelistic sense and in some iconography , Julius Caesar is a little older and at the same time about the same age as Christ. They have blond hair and blue eyes… Actually, they were breed by beautiful celtic women… then they were taken from their slave mothers and placed as true sons. That would make sense since the descriptions of the people of Spain around those days were of tall individuals with blue eyes and red hair. Salud.