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THE DARKENING OF GREECE - CITIZENSHIP TO FOREIGNERS
In 411 BC, forty years after Pericles had enacted his law limiting citizenship to those of biological Athenian descent only, the law was turned on its head and citizenship of Athens was given to tens of thousands of foreigners who had entered Athens, particularly from the Middle East, with the argument being used that the city state had to make up the huge population losses suffered as a result of the Persian and inter-Grecian wars.
By this stage the racial mix of Athens and many other Grecian city states was beginning to show the effects of the importation of peoples from elsewhere in the Middle and Near East, and significant sections of the population had become darker than even during Pericles' time.
This darkening of the population (caused partly by the Nordic and original European elements of Grecian society warring themselves to death - and partly by the importation of masses of already mixed Middle Eastern peoples) runs directly in tandem with the decline and fall of Classical Greece.
Above left: In this 300 BC Grecian statue above, a Black African slave is shown polishing a boot. On the right, a Greek statue of a Negro musician dating from between the 4th and 3rd Centuries BC. Biblotheque Nationale, Paris.
The downfall of Classical Greece - the importation of non-White slaves. It was the importation of large numbers of racially foreign slaves which was to lead to the dissolution of the Classical Grecian civilization.
Above: Three pots, dating from the 5th Century BC, showing the racial types in Ancient Greece: One is clearly Semitic, another Black. These pots are on public display at the National Museum, Athens.
Above: A vase depicting a Negroid female as the witch Circe.
,Above: A double headed vase showing a Black and a White face, reflecting the two elements in late Grecian society.
Above: A detail from the mummy case of Artemidorus the Younger, a Greek who had settled in Thebes, Egypt, during Roman times (100AD), showing the change in racial types which occurred in Greece.
The gradual darkening of the Grecian peoples was noted by many famous Greek writers of the time. By drawing comparisons with the Greek peoples, the surrounding Nordic tribes were of fair complexion. Hippocrates makes reference in his works to the "long heads" (that is, Nordic skulls) of the Macedonians - while Aristotle made copious references to the fairness of the Scythians and the Macedonians.
The Greek soldier and historian Xenophon (430-354 BC) also made a point of referring to the blond haired and fair eyed Macedonians and Scythians in his book Anabasis, which described a Greek expedition against the Persians.
By the time of the Roman Emperor Octavian Augustus (who reigned directly after Julius Caesar), the Roman historian Manilius counted the Greeks as amongst the dark nations of the world, referring to the Greeks as part of the "colorate gentes" (Astronomica, iv, 719.) It is likely that Manilius was referring to the Hellenistic World in general, rather than the inhabitants of the Greek Peninsula alone, as many people from the surrounding areas had by that stage adopted much of Greek culture, and were linguistically and culturally relatively indistinguishable from the Hellenes themselves - as there were of course still Whites in Greece itself, then and now.
Another factor which influenced the racial make-up of Greece was the existence of the Byzantium Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire which drew all manner of Middle Eastern mixed types to the region. This process, which happened over a period of centuries, was to be aggravated by the Turkish invasion of Greece and the Balkans.
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