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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sundjata: [QB] Snowden's writings may be noteworthy concerning his take on greek and greco-roman descriptions. What do you guys take of the color scheme attributed to Marcus Manilius (per Frank Snowden, "Egypt in Africa", 1996) claiming the 'Aethiopians' to be the most sun burnt, followed by Indians, then Egyptians, and THEN "moors", who were described as the lightest? ....... ^^Not sure about the "moors" being the lightest, depending on whatever collective entity he may have been referring to, but other than that it simply sounds to me that he's describing a natural cline of indigenous African variation. "Aethiopians" obviously referring to the darkest of the southern Sudanese. Snowden also references Philostratus as alluding to a gradient of color seen among inhabitants on the border of Egypt that's intermediate between Egyptians and "Aethiopians". Of course without the natural response of interpreting this as a subtle nuance in skin complexion he interprets it as a "mixture" of different races. All the while extrapolating his concept of "moor" to all those who fit within the lighter range on the color scheme. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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