Red Hair
In Latin the word pyrrhus means red from the Greek term πυρρός (purros), meaning 'flame coloured', 'the colour of fire' or simply 'red' or 'reddish'. Pyrrha was evidently named after her red hair. Horace (Ode, i. 5) and Ovid describes her as red haired.
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