Aeon for Friends
Final in an article published in Forbes, the Classics scholar Sarah Bond at the University of Iowa caused a storm by pointing out that many of the Greek statues that seem white to us now were in antiquity painted in colour year. This is certainly a position that is uncontroversial and demonstrably proper, but Bond received a bath of online abuse for daring to declare that the reason why some choose to think of the Greek statues as marble-white may indeed have one thing related to their politics. In 2010, it absolutely was the change of BBC’s new television show Troy: Fall of a City (2018-) to attract ire, which cast black actors into the functions of Achilles, Patroclus, Zeus, Aeneas as well as others (just as if making use of anglophone north European actors were any less anachronistic).
the thought of the Greeks as paragons of whiteness is profoundly rooted in Western culture. As Donna Zuckerberg shows inside her guide not absolutely all Dead White guys (2018), this agenda happens to be promoted with gusto by chapters of the alt-Right whom see by themselves as heirs to (a supposed) European warrior masculinity. Racism is psychological, maybe not logical; we don’t want to dignify online armies of anonymous trolls by responding at length for their assertions. (więcej…)
