How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual

Re:How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most ... by coldtea on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:09PM (#16275395)

>We have no reliable evidence regarding what proportion of Roman Britain was "black". We have good historical evidence that there were Romans present in Britain who we'd these days describe as black (e.g. an Ethiopian soldier garrisoning Hadrian's wall).

Ethiopians were black. The majority in ancient Rome were not like that, not even the majority of people in the northern Africa countries.

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Re:How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most ... by foldr on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:25PM (#16275522)

We don't have figures on skin tone for North Africa over two thousand years ago. As far as I know. If we do, then by all means post them here.

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Re:How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most ... by coldtea on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:35PM (#16276258)

We don't need some magical list of figures to know the general distribution.

We have descriptions, from many sources, even before Herodotus, of what this or that country's people looked like. We also have actual depictions of populations in the various hellenistic, then Roman and Byzantine provinces in mosaics and other painted scenes.

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Re:How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most ... by foldr on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:02PM (#16276510)

Feel free to link to some relevant data or source if you have something. As far as I'm aware, historical data on skin color demographics are extremely scanty. Even in the case of major historical figures like Cleopatra, we just don't know for sure.

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Re:How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most ... by kirghiz on Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:47AM (#16280248)

Considering the family tree of the Ptolemies, I think we have a good idea

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Re:How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most ... by foldr on Thursday February 01, 2018 @08:31AM (#16281702)

There is no historical consensus on Cleopatra's skin color. Plenty of people have their own favorite speculations about it, but there's no hard evidence.

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