It is thus recognized that people have skin colour of differing gradations which can be described as black, brown, dark brown, light brown, dark, and so  
on. Just as there is a preponderance of adjectival descriptions for the variously hued skin of people today called European; indeed, the word 'Mediterranean' now simply means, roughly, 'permanently suntanned, with various degrees of pigmentation', with all those of darker complexion assumed to be inhabitants of southern Spain, Cyprus, Greece, southern Italy, or Hungary, for instance. The term 'Moor' indisputably expresses a 'black' origin stemming from the African presence in Greece from the sixth to the fourth centuries BCE. Before that, the first generation of Greek writers all referred to the Kemites as aethiopes, meaning 'burnt-faced' or 'black-faced'. Far too many Greek gods are described as Ethiopian or Egyptian in origin: Athena, Memnon, Andromeda, Cepheus, Perseus and others were recognized by Greeks in antiquity as having AfricanAsian origin and complexions that were variations of black (Snowden, 1970, pp. 144-153).