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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I want to note here that this question - which I expect will be more than bit contentious - is actually one in which the ancient evidence is fairly clear. We don't have to guess at what the Romans looked like - quite a lot of color artwork (frescos, mosaic, etc) survives.
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We also don't have to guess what the Romans thought about it either. They tell us. And we see that the Romans could often be very bigoted and intolerant, but that they tended to focus on 'otherness' through dress, culture, customs, climate, etc. rather than physical appearance.
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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.
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