Post #1511242
2026-01-27 06:23 UTC
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@ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-27 16:09
Define "plenty". The ancient Greeks didn't care about skin tone in the modern sense, so there isn't some racial census data like we have now. https://lucas.leeds.ac.uk/article/skin-colour-in-ancient-greece/ They make trivial to find references to black people and depict them in the manner they depict themselves in art. Because their division was not "Greek" and "black" but "Greek" and "not Greek", they simply didn't document it. Aristotle describes the ideal skin tone as halfway between an Ethiopian and a woman. Black people were quite literally unremarkable to them, so it's pretty easy to argue that an ancient Greek wouldn't find it odd to travel with a black person.
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@TachyonTele@piefed.social 2026-01-27 08:23
Yes, we have plenty of sources for colored cyclops during ancient greece.