Más antik források is rendelkezésére állhattak a naiv etimológiához:

„Aristotle mentions a woman from Elis whose child had an Ethiopian father. Plutarch relates a story of a Greek woman who was the great granddaughter of an Ethiopian. Menander's sympathetic reference to those who are far from their homes and without friends ‒ Ethiopians and Scythians ‒ suggests that the Greeks were well acquainted with these two racial stocks. Theophrastus states that the ťman of petty ambitionŤ had an Ethiopian slave. One of the pupils of Herodes Atticus was a Negro.”

Érdemes a tanulmány egészét átnézni, egy csomó antik szerzőt felsorol, akik "etiópokról" írtak:

Frank M. Snowden, Jr.

The Negro In Ancient Greece

In: American Anthropologist 50 (1948), 31‒44.

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