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Race and Ethnicity: Antiquity and Today – Ancient Pasts The papers on this page examine ancient Greek and Roman attitudes to ethnicity, identity, and difference, and their modern reception Did the Greeks and Romans have a concept of “race?” How did they understand the differences they saw between themselves and other peoples they encountered in the Ancient Mediterranean?
An empire of many colours? Race and imperialism in Ancient Rome The case of Rome shows how arbitrary are the differences on which racist regimes are founded Prejudice, cruelty, and discrimination were all central to Roman rule, but what we consider the most obvious markers of race hardly mattered to them
Race and Ancient Rome: New Scientific Study Confirms Racial . . . A June 2017 study by scientists at North Carolina State University of skull shapes and skeletons found in ancient graves in Italy has confirmed that mass immigration from outside that country caused a racial change in the population after the establishment of the Roman Empire
Roman population size: the logic of the debate - History of . . . This paper provides a critical assessment of the current state of the debate about the number of Roman citizens and the size of the population of Roman Italy Rather than trying to make a case for a particular reading of the evidence, it aims to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of rival approaches and examine the validity of existing
What was ‘race’ in ancient Rome? | Center for the Humanities In contrast, Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña’s The Smyrna Girls, just a few hundred miles from the ancient site of Troy, shows a huddle of girls with dark skin and hair These temporal boundaries demonstrate the irrationality of modern racial formations, but they are not arbitrary
Racial Identity and Ethnicity in the Ancient World In all areas it could mean being more intentional about locating and integrating the work of classicists of color, and contesting the notion of the “whiteness” of the ancient Mediterranean world We met four times and explored a wide range of literature that will help us think about all of these areas
Multiculturalism, Race, and Ethnicity in Ancient Times There are scholars who argue for a kind of proto-racism in the ancient world, built on the ethnocentrism of the Greek or the Roman, but there is nothing of the system of racial-thinking that we see in the modern and contemporary worlds