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Sappho uses "chloros", green, to describe her skin, the same way Pindar says "ioplokamos", violet-braided, of the Muses, and Homer speaks of "kuanos", blue, when describing hair, but "oinopis", wine-colored, when describing the sea.
Because their understanding of color is that of an extremely rich network of images, emotions and themes: "chloros" reminds one of the shiny, translucent nature of a plant, and thus can be used of a woman's skin even if it is not "green".
If we refuse to engage with a radically different understanding of perception such as that offered by Ancient Greece & expect to find nothing alien in the Greeks, we will always perceive their understanding of color as primitive when it is in fact in many ways richer than ours.
Even today skin can be classified as "olive".
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