The Essays and Hymns of Synesius of Cyrene, Vol. 2

of the heroes, except Agamemnon, and that only while praising the
rest of his body besides; and he does not merely describe the Greeks
as men of quick-glancing eyes—though he applies that epithet
commonly to Greeks—but he praises them
5 all for their hair; in the first place, Achilles:

"and she seized the son of Peleus by his fair hair."

Then Menelaus he calls blond because of his hair, and he mentions
Hector's hair in these words:—

"and round about his dark hair was dragged in the dust."

10 So when Euphorbus, the fairest of the Trojans, had died, he
deplored nothing else but this, saying:

"His hair like to the Graces was dyed with blood
And his tresses adorned with gold and silver."

And of Odysseus, whenever he wishes to show how beautiful he
15 had become at the hand of Athene, he says:

"his hair turned black."

And again about the same hero:

"down from his head
She sent curling hair to grow like the flower of the hyacinth."

20 Now, the adornment of hair seems to become men more than women
according to Homer, for when he discourses of the beauty of
women, he does not seem to recall their hair to mind as often.
He praises those deities who are female in other ways, for he makes Aphrodite "golden," Hera "ox-eyed," and
25 Thetis "silver-footed": but in the case of Zeus, he praises his hair
most of all;—

"The ambrosial locks of the king floated waving from his head."

4. There you have the words of Dio. Nevertheless, as I am no
mean prophet, I knew that I should see Thrasymachus blush.