Barthelemy (1987, p. 8), a cultural theorist, locates the etymology of the word 'Moor' in the Greek maupos, 'a proper noun that identifies the inhabitants  
of ancient Mauretania, the area that now makes up Morocco and Algeria [...] the fact [is] that maupos was used as a synonym for black' (1987, p. 8). He links the Greek word with the Latin maurus, which he says also 'came to mean black' (1987, p. 9). Further, quoting an author who says that although the word and its derivatives meant 'dark' or 'black', Barthelemy says that '[i]t was, therefore, not possible to mistake a Negro and a Mauretanian', and that this confusion arose from the author of Mandeville's Travels, who 'spoke of the Moors as black' (1987, p. 9). In a scholarly analysis of the historical development of the word 'Moor', Snowden (1970, p. 259, footnote 12) refers to Juvenal 5.53, Isidore 14.5.10, the translation of which reads: 'Mauretania derives its name from the color of its people, for the Greeks render nigrum as $\mu a u o o v[\ldots]$ Maurus appears at times to have been a poetical equivalent of Aethiops'. The latter statement appears tautological, as the etymology of the word, Greek in origin, literally means 'burnt face', a designation of blackness, which is certainly not poetical. Based on all the associations cited by Snowden, the word 'Moor' would appear to have been derived from the Greek root maupos, from which developed the Latin maurus. It should be noted here that black-skinned people were frequently found in Greece in the sixth, fifth and fourth centuries BCE, and that numerous icons were made of them, in ceramic and other materials. According to Snowden,