/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4294691
Here's a mosaic of Alexander the Great, done in his time and in the city of Pella, depicting him and presumably his general as blonds.

There are other artefacts (and accounts) depicting the ancient Greeks, their close neighbours and their gods as blonds, redheads and with light eyes. If you do some digging you'll see this is true. If you're serious I can even post more pictures which are rather blatant in relation to this topic, which you can check for yourself and make your own mind up on.

I think most, if not all, of the figurines found in Boeotia (Tanagra figurines) and its roundabouts are depicted as redheads, or if you want to be more specific, auburn haired - in stark contrast to modern Greece.

Their neighbours, the Thracians (and basically all nations north of ancient Greece) were said to all be redheaded or blond with blue or grey eyes.


Also, even though you didn't raise this point directly, I feel it's important to note that even though it's evident that blondism or a light-complexion in general wasn't uncommon in the northern part of the Mediterranean in ancient times, any allusions to a "Nordic" race in ancient Greece would be foolish and completely backwards.
It needs to be understood that the ancestors of the modern Scandinavians, who are the most known for blondism today, came out of, and evolved in, mainland Europe. Or to put it differently, there's no evolutionary connection between blondism and northern climates, and in fact it evolved in the most temperate parts of Europe. The ancestors, or one significant ancestral group of the ancient Greeks (and modern of course), were the same blond people. All European people share a connection to this group and stem from it, and it's also why it's not an odd or even uncommon assumption for people to make depending on where you live, that the most, and dare I say it, purest Europeans are blonde and blue-eyed, even though that may not exactly be the case.