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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Antalas: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by BrandonP: [qb] And I don't really want to waste a lot of effort rebutting Antalas. DJ has more stamina for that than I do. But this was funny: [QUOTE]Originally posted by Antalas: [qb]Which greek word exactly was used to describe her ? "black" for greeks could have mean anything from tanned to proper black skin. [/qb][/QUOTE]Did this guy not read the original quotation? [QUOTE]Gazing at her beauty I melt like wax before the fire. If she is black, what is that to me? [qb]So are coals[/qb], but when we burn them, they shine like rosebuds.[/QUOTE]If Asclepiades is likening Didyme's complexion to coals, I don't think he had a light tan in mind. [/qb][/QUOTE]lol I just checked your link and this is what they say : [QUOTE] [b]S. B. Pomeroy (Women in Hellenistic Egypt, 55) unreservedly describes her as an Ethiopian. While possible, A. Cameron, GRBS 31 (1990) 287, noting that Ptolemy VIII characterises her as a "native", that Greeks considered the Egyptians "black", and that Didyme is a very common Egyptian name, concludes, I think correctly, that "we have every right to expect an Egyptian".[/b] [b]F. M. Snowden Jr, GRBS 32 (1991) 239, argues against Cameron that, even though people of Nubian ancestry with black skin were well integrated into Egyptian society, Graeco-Roman practice was to reserve deep black for Ethiopian (Nubian/Meroitic) origin. He speculates that Didyme may have been captured by Ptolemy II in his Meroitic expedition of c. 275, and that she may even, like Verdi's Aida, have been the daughter of an Ethiopian king[/b] [/QUOTE]hahah I knew something was wrong...always the same thing with afrocentrists. Nice try though. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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