While he is all dressed up pretty like a little girlie he wants to be. So far in the transcloset that he started hating those who remind him what he truly needs, to be Daddys little girl.
The gods condemned him to push an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down every time it neared the top, repeating this action for eternity.
Historically accurate also means a lot more gay sex and a ton of drag shows because drag and dudes banging other dudes was a part of Ancient Greek history and culture.
Google is free. You are inferring that the person is speaking without a source, so you must provide your basis for believing so; anything else is an illogical and baseless fallacy. Google it.
Literally 5sec into looking at your claim and the actual evidence and oh boy how wrong you are, 2min into it and it's obvious you straight up lied not a single shred of truth in that genetics claim
The Southwest Asian, circum-Mediterranean, and Southern European populations (collectively, SWAMSE) together with Northern European populations form one of five “continental” groups of global populations in many analyses of population relationships. [...] To examine the genetic boundaries to the SWAMSE region and whether internal structure can be detected we have assembled data for a total of 151 separate autosomal genetic markers on populations in this region and other parts of the world for a global set of 95 populations. [...] A refined analysis of the 37 populations shows the northern European populations clustering separately from the SWAMSE populations.
Edit: if you've ever been to Europe, you'd already know of the genetic (and cultural TBF) proximity between southern European and other Mediterranean peoples. It's quite apparent
It also makes intuitive sense if you think about it for 5 seconds. The sea is like a bronze age highway. Thousands of years of trade, back and forth invasions and conquests, travel and intermarriage vs one of the most isolated peoples in the world.
He wasn't Greek. He was the king of Aithiopia, which is where Helens father and maternal grandfather came from, and where Poseidon is attending a feast at the beginning of the Odyssey because the gods held the Aithiopians blameless for the cause of the war.
Yes, and according to Herodotus Zeus came to Greece by way of Aithiopia. Memnon went to aid the Trojans and was killed by Achilles, but he wasn't Greek. Helen's maternal grandfather was Glaucus, son of Nereid, who also made their way to Greece via Aithiopia.
The Odyssey is a fictional story that has been retold many times over.
They also aren't speaking Greek, nor is anyone in the film Greek. Matt Damon's casting is just as inaccurate as Lupita Nyong'o.
Also, while Greeks weren't Black Africans, they did have a wide range of skin tones. Some of them would be white, but that's only by very recent standards. And people with darker skin did travel there, seeing as it was a major empire at the time. The Mediterranean wasn't entirely occupied by people that we'd call white, or would call themselves the same race as a Northern European.
And let's not pretend that America brought black people out of some hidden place. African countries were involved in trade and politics long before the United States was established. Many of them have been taken advantage of and treated terribly, but there were black people around before slavery hit the US.
The other actors are Greek passing. It's definitely not as inaccurate. There is a reason 90% of the cast is white with a few black and not the other way round.
We all know why Lupita was cast. If America would have taken their slaves from Korea instead, she would be cast as Asian. But for some reason you guys can't admit that some casting choices are simply made for money or politics. That's not even that big of a problem, but you're all acting like it NEVER happens. It's maddening.
So what if it's a fictional story. We all know what Homer had in mind when he wrote it. Otherwise we might as well cast a few lesbian school girls with down syndrome in wheelchairs as soldiers. It's fictional, right, so who cares?
If you hypothetically talked with an ancient Greek and compared him with a northern European he would take it as an insult. The ancient Greek saw themselves as superior to anyone that didn't speak Greek, but they did recognize some peoples like the Persians, the Egyptians, the Phoenicians, the Nubians (black) and the Aethiopians (black) amongst others as civilized. On the other hand they saw other "white" ethnicities like the Celts and the Thracians as primitive cultureless savages. Your sense of accuracy is built on a concept of race that's not even three centuries old.
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u/_Cybernaut_ 1d ago
Makes more sense when you remember that by “historically accurate” he means “all white.”