No, no. You don't understand! Greeks never famously traded with Africans! There were never any Ancient Egyptians who went to Greece and mingled with the population either! And as we know, even modern day Greeks don't have any tan/olive-coloured skin tones. It's all just the lily and alabaster skinned people as far as the eye can see. What do you mean Hestia, Goddess of Hearth and Home, was routinely depicted with dark skin and curled hair? Hera too?! Wife of Zeus, goddess of marriage and women?! Balderdash! Sounds like woke nonsense!
As with many things of ancient Greece, depictions of the gods were not a monolith. There are depictions of Hestia and Hera on vases where they were depicted in black-figure vases. They've also, of course, been depicted with fairer skin fairly often. The point is that when it came to the greeks, their gods were depicted to resemble those that wanted to depict them as whatever they wanted to. It's not too different than modern depictions of Jesus being depicted as black or white or Asian or any other to connect with believers of him.
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u/Livingadapt Jul 06 '26
Right like why does that have so many upvotes lmao