Our current-day notions of race were largely absent in those days. People were, of course, aware of differences in skin color, but I have the impression that they didn't make that big a deal over them. The important thing in the Greco-Roman world was that one was fluent in Greek and Latin. If you were, then you were a civilized person, otherwise you were a barbarian.
Jim F.
-- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: They weren't considered "black" as a separate category of people. ;)
--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Cockeyed Optimism
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 11:40 PM
> The Romans had a few black emperors, IIRC. Some of the
> better ones, too.
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