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Hello Lisa,
I was going to make black humour here but you were luck you sent me Aphrodite so I changed mind.
Anyhow black humour comes from black bile a direct translation of 'μέλαν [melan]' meaning "black" and 'χολή [chole]' meaning bile. The word melancholic is a direct
The name HIPPOCRATES, a 5th-century BC Greek doctor who is known as the Father of Medicine. The name is Ancient Greek.
The Latinized form of the Greek name 'Ιπποκρατης [Hippokrates] which meant "horse power", derived from the elements ‘ίππος [Hippos'] "horse" and 'κράτος [kratos] "power".
The archaic Euboean (Greek islans) word 'χύμωρ [humor]' means juice or fluid substance in the body, such as blood, lymph, or bile. In Attic dialect and in the word is 'χυμός [hymos]' meaning juice.
Physicians in the Middle Ages believed that four principal humors — blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile — controlled body functions and that a person's temperament resulted from the humor that was most prevalent in the body. Sanguine people were controlled by blood, phlegmatic people by phlegm, choleric people by yellow bile (also known as “choler”, and melancholic people by black bile a.k.a “melancholy”.
humour, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was achieved through a balance of the four humors; he suggested that the glands had a controlling effect on this balance. For many centuries this idea was held as the basis of medicine and was much elaborated. Galen introduced a new aspect, that of four basic temperaments reflecting the humors: the sanguine, buoyant type; the phlegmatic, sluggish type; the choleric, quick-tempered type; and the melancholic, dejected type. In time any personality aberration or eccentricity was referred to as a humor.
In literature, a humor character was one in whom a single passion predominated; this interpretation was especially popular in Elizabethan and other Renaissance literature. One of the most comprehensive treatments of the subject was the Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton. The theory found its strongest advocates among the comedy writers, notably Ben Jonson and his followers, who used humor characters to illustrate various modes of irrational and immoral behavior. In medicine, the theory lost favor in the 19th cent. after the German Rudolf Virchow presented his cellular pathology.
The name Aphodite will be in a forum very soon.
Best Regards
Georgios
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