Why were the greeks obsessed with black people? In the oldest greek text the iliad, ethiopia is implicitly shown as a blissful foreign land where the gods go on vacation often. The now-lost sequel of the iliad focuses on an army of superhuman african warriors coming to help the trojans and almost destroying the entire greek army. Centuries later herodotus describes ethiopians as the tallest, healthiest and strongest people on the earth, while trashing the babylonians in the same book. Why were ancient europeans fascinated with africans?
>>17437417Don't forget about dark elves (inspired by Africans from Constantinople)
that's not being obsessed, there are more mentions of the Persians in Greek texts than Ethiopians yet you wouldn't say the Greek were obsessed with the Persians now?
>>17437417>ethiopia is implicitly shown as a blissful foreign land where the gods go on vacation often.Just like Japan is to us. It's a basic human thing. The grass is always greener on the other side.
>>17437417Ancient Orientalism. The few people who had traveled to Axum would have been quite wealthy and thus treated well by the locals
>>17437417Ancient Greeks mentioned a lot of foreign fantastic and exotic lands, like Huperborea and Ultima Thule
>>17437417They also had black jizz, which is why they were black. Herodotus said that, so it's true. 99.9% of Greeks throughout 99% of their History never saw a real Ethiopian in their entire life. All of the Greek Divinites are described as "fair-haired", "ivory-skinned", "clear-eyed", on EVERY FUCKING PAGE of the "Iliad". You will NEVER be White. Get over it.
