Not only were the historical GREEKS unlikely to be uniformly pale-skinned, but their world was also home to 'Ethiopians', a vague term for dark-skinned North Africans. They are mentioned in Aethiopis, the story after Homer's Iliad (the epic poems retelling the battle of Troy), where Memnon of Ethiopia joins ...
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