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[–] 110 points 2 months ago

Aryan Jesus would approve.

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  • [–] 79 points 2 months ago

    Helen of Tromsø

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  • [–] 57 points 2 months ago (17 children)

    I can’t help but wonder if this was posted by someone who didn’t care about history, and just wanted to compliment a woman they thought was remarkably beautiful.

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    That looks like AI anyway. Look how her shirt in the right pic falls weird.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Some greeks supposedly were blond. They used the term xanthos, a term meaning golden, yellow, or light brown/auburn hair.

    The greeks of today aren't necessarily representative of what the greeks back then looked like.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Yes, but when the ancient Greek describe "blonde" they aren't referring to the same colors we associate blonde with. Alexander the Great's hair was said to be xanthos.... Contemporary depictions of him are with light brown or chestnut colored hair.

    The greeks of today aren't necessarily representative of what the greeks back then looked like.

    Yes, because a lot of Greek people have some Slavic lineage in their family history and are lighter skinned than ancient Greek would have been.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, I think a lot of people underestimate how blonde some Scandinavians are. I had that realization when my school went to France, and I realized that almost every single one of my classmates was "blonde" by the French definition, while I had previously thought that only a couple were blonde with the rest being auburn, light brown or chestnut. The "straw" colored hair that gets white in the summer is kinda rare in teens and adults, even among Scandinavians.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    They'd be mad if a movie about Shaka and the Zulus had any black actors in it.

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    These are probably the same morons who think Jesus was fair-skinned with blue eyes.

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    [–] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Too weak to be Scandinavian, just look at those minuscule shoulders.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago

    If the girl looks like DLSS5, she's prompted y'all.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Well do remember that the Greeks of today would look almost nothing like the Greeks of the Bronze Age. Numerous migration waves and foreign conquerors have come in those intervening 3,000 years.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    That's not really true, especially in southern Greece. DNA studies have shown the modern Greek people share around 90% of their ancestry with ancient Minoans and Myceenans. In the South, especially on islands like Crete they're virtually the same. In the North there is some admixture mostly with Slavic and Balkans, and some traces from the Ottoman empire.

    Relatively short term occupations or small migrations tend to change an ethnic groups DNA less than you would think. After 4 generations you would end up with the same scenario of seeing the whitest person you have ever seen claiming they're 1/16th Cherokee.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    Just say that you'd march to troy for her. Its fine

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It's mental that people think Greeks were blonde haired with blue eyes, while Hispanics (and up until recently Italians and the Irish) didn't even qualify as white.

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    Troy, Michigan

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    D...do they think that's what a Woman from Post Bronze age collapse Sparta would look like?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Smellin of Troy

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  • Her hair isn't straight it has a wave to it.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Is that AI or real person I'm just confused by why there's two pictures that are obviously taken in the same place but she's wearing different outfits.

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    [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Source for the screenshots.
    https://www.tiktok.com/@jennarenee.s/video/7221288622887324974
    https://www.tiktok.com/@jennarenee.s/video/7215731084120624427
    She's not Greek, she's from New York. Seems she went slightly viral in 2023. Personally haven't heard of her before.

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    Bet they believe they spoke English with a British stage accent.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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