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re: Is it True Ellen Page will be Achilles in the new Odyssey?
Posted on 6/2/26 at 3:24 pm to blueboy
Posted on 6/2/26 at 3:24 pm to blueboy
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People from those areas 3000 years ago were pretty much white. They look like they do now because of centuries of muslim invasions.
They were white but you have to remember they spent a lot of time outdoors rather than sitting in cubicles.
Ancient Greeks primarily had Mediterranean features with tan or olive skin, dark hair, and dark eyes.
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Posted on 6/2/26 at 3:39 pm to sgallo3
quote:'Mediterranean ' is a sliding scale. They generally didn't look like present day Mediterranean people. Some did, but things like blonde hair were so idealized that they were considered traits of the ruling class and many people died their hair to emulate it.
Ancient Greeks primarily had Mediterranean features
I just look at their art to get a good picture.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 5:10 pm to blueboy
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I just look at their art to get a good picture
But the pigments have washed away or been removed through the processes of cleaning on art that old. The white marble statues used to be painted
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:02 pm to sgallo3
The features haven't faded, and it's not just the statues anyway. There are a lot of other artistic depictions as well.
I'm not saying they all looked like Simon Pegg, but they didn't look like Zendaya either, much less Lupita.
I'm not saying they all looked like Simon Pegg, but they didn't look like Zendaya either, much less Lupita.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 7:48 pm to blueboy
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The features haven't faded, and it's not just the statues anyway. There are a lot of other artistic depictions as well.
The art also often depicted heroes and important people as whiter than average. Since the majority of working class people had to be outside in the sun all day and therefore were very tan, being pasty white was a status symbol. If you were super pale that meant that you were elite enough that you didn’t have to be outside working all the time. Similar to how people in the middle ages thought chubby girls were beautiful. Not a lot of fat people around when there is a famine every few years
Posted on 6/2/26 at 7:57 pm to blueboy
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People from those areas 3000 years ago were pretty much white. They look like they do now because of centuries of muslim invasions. Also,
holy dumbass. Do you really believe that? You realize the ancient Greeks weren’t white Europeans, right?
Posted on 6/2/26 at 8:25 pm to Geauxgurt
quote:They were a lot closer to white Europeans than they are now. It's not an opinion.
You realize the ancient Greeks weren’t white Europeans, right?
Show your work, dickhole.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 11:09 pm to LoveThatMoney
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Were Anatolians not Turkic peoples like the Kazakhs?
No. The Turks did not invade Anatolia until around 1000 A.D., and that was through different stages of invasions and migrations.
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Certainly, the Hittites would have looked similar to Turkish folks today as that is where the Hittite Empire was.
What? Absolutely not. The Hittites were an indo-European speaking people.
Posted on 6/3/26 at 1:14 pm to Mo Jeaux
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What? Absolutely not. The Hittites were an indo-European speaking people.
Bah, I got confused when looking into them. Yes, they were Indo-European speaking people probably from the Balkans.
The Trojans would have been ruled probably by a Balkan people but were distinctly Anatolian, being a blend of Balkan and Mediterranean.
I suppose they would look not dissimilar to modern day Greeks, though I think there are plenty of Turkish people who would also favor a fairer complexion than Arabic peoples that I think a lot of folks on here may be associating with “Turkish.”
Turks are a massive blend of cultures and ethnicities now, and I have to imagine some of that red haired, blond haired, fairer skin and rounded facial features would still be found in Turkey, particularly in Istanbul and places in Western Turkey.
Posted on 6/3/26 at 5:28 pm to blueboy
Romans were Chinese.
Fight me.
Fight me.
Posted on 6/3/26 at 6:08 pm to Philzilla2k
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Fight me.
What Sonic works for you?
Posted on 6/3/26 at 6:14 pm to LoveThatMoney
Trick question, he works for Sonic
Posted on 6/3/26 at 6:19 pm to sgallo3
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Trick question, he works for Sonic
Honest work for an honest man
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