There were TWO places called Ethiopia in classical antiquity. The 'other' Ethiopia was situated around the Levant.
Andromeda is described as pale white skinned in the ancient texts and flowing haired, i've already posted them before. There was nothing 'Black' about her.
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quote:Andromeda is described as pale white skinned in the ancient texts and flowing haired, i've already posted them before. There was nothing 'Black' about her.
The whole point about being an Ethiopian is that one has to be Black!!..
Can we have an intelligent troll here?? what a dumbass Posts: 6546 | From: japan | Registered: Feb 2009
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quote:Originally posted by Brada-Anansi: Anglo-Idiot
quote:Andromeda is described as pale white skinned in the ancient texts and flowing haired, i've already posted them before. There was nothing 'Black' about her.
The whole point about being an Ethiopian is that one has to be Black!!..
Can we have an intelligent troll here?? what a dumbass
Ethiopians are not 'Black'. The point was though in the classical texts, there is more than the African Ethiopia. Another Ethiopia sat in Western Asia.
Andromeda is described as white skinned in the ancient greek texts.
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quote:Ethiopians are not 'Black'. The point was though in the classical texts, there is more than the African Ethiopia. Another Ethiopia sat in Western Asia. Andromeda is described as white skinned in the ancient greek texts.
I don't care if there were 20 Ethiopias in antiquity there are two Guineas two Nigeria/Niger and sometime ago there were three Mauritania/ Mauritius one had a name change all peopled by Blacks or dark folks the fact still stand that an Ethiopian is by definition a Black person Etymology From Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopia), from Αἰθίοψ (Aithiops) "charred complexion", from αἴθω (aithō) "I burn" + ὤψ (ōps) "eye, face, complexion". Since you are a wikipdiot look here http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/EthiopiaPosts: 6546 | From: japan | Registered: Feb 2009
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In Greek mythology, Memnon (Greek: Mέμνων) was an Ethiopian king and son of Tithonus and Eos. As a warrior he was considered to be almost Achilles' equal in skill. During the Trojan War, he brought an army to Troy's defense. So-called “Memnon pieta”: Eos lifting up the body of her son Memnon. Kalos inscription. Interior from an Attic red-figure cup, ca. 490–480 BC. From Capua, Italy. |H. 12 cm (4 ˝ in.),
Roman writers and later clasical Greek writers such as Diodorus Siculus believed Memnon hailed from "Aethiopia", a vaguely defined geographical area in Africa, usually south of Egypt. Earlier Greek writers placed Memnon in "Asia", which most of them equated with "Cissia", corresponding to the Bronze Age Kassite state and to modern Khuzestan in southwest Iran. These Greek writers also credited Memnon with founding Khuzestan's main city, Susa. Aeschylus and Ctesias both identified Memnon as a Cissian and founder of Susa. Herodotus called Susa "the city of Memnon,"but distinguished between Cissia and Asiatic Ethiopia, which he placed in the 17th Persian satrapy together with Paricanians, probably located in present-day Iran.Herodotus describes two tall statues with Egyptian and Ethiopian dress that some, he says, identify as Memnon; he disagrees, and says he doesn't know who it is. One of the statues was on the road from Smyrna to Sardis. A carved figure matching this description has been found near the old road from Smyrna to Sardis. Pausanias describes how he marveled at a colossal statue in Egypt: In Egyptian Thebes, on crossing the Nile to the so called Pipes, I saw a statue, still sitting, which gave out a sound. The many call it Memnon, who they say from Aethiopia overran Egypt and as far as Susa. The Thebans, however, say that it is a statue, not of Memnon, but of a native named Phamenoph, and I have heard some say that it is Sesostris. This statue was broken in two by Cambyses, and at the present day from head to middle it is thrown down; but the rest is seated, and every day at the rising of the sun it makes a noise, and the sound one could best liken to that of a harp or lyre when a string has been broken. In Blacks in Antiquity, Frank Snowden examined the later Greek and Roman tradition tying Memnon to African "Ethiopia". Snowden notes that according to Greek tradition, Memnon was the progenitor of the Ethiopians, which in this context referred to African people. Through changing depictions of Memmnon on vase paintings and scenes of the Trojan War, Snowden shows that the Asiatic portrayal of Memnon was abandoned in favor of an African origin. Literary accounts of the Trojan war, as well as numerous Roman authors, consistently describe Memnon with African characteristics as an Ethiopian from Sudan and Egypt.
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