This week on the blog: We continue our look at diversity in the Roman world by discussing the place of skin color. What color were the Romans? Most of them! We also discuss why skin color was less important to the Romans as an identity signal.https://acoup.blog/2021/07/23/collections-the-queens-latin-or-who-were-the-romans-part-iv-the-color-of-purple/ …
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And I should say, for readers who want more exposure to primary source texts for both this post and the last, the
@kataplexis , C.S. Roy, M.L. Goldman reader, *Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World* (2013) has a lot of it pull together and well translated.Näytä tämä ketjuKiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I discuss that a bit in the post, particularly the tendency to depict women as being very pale. What I was mostly interested in was the range of skin color being presented as an indicator of what the artists understood as a 'normal' range for human skin color.
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