Context: princess Andromeda of the perseus myth was from Aethiopia, while it doesn’t exactly map to modern Ethiopia, it does literally mean burnt (black) face. So yeah Andromeda was black, despite what most modern western depictions would have you believe.
Let’s be fair. No one voting for trump has any reliable history education. Or any education for that matter. You can go to school, but that doesn’t make you intelligent.
Helen of Troy hatched from an egg conceived by
Zeus fucking a swan.But ya skin colours totally important here.no, not Zeus fucking a swan, Zeus disguised in the form of a swan fucking a human woman
Well that’s alright then.
How is my version less weird? Like it makes sense a swan would lay an egg. Fuckin hell. I just went with it cuz Zeus fucked everything. Polymorphing seems unnecessary.
If you’re going to make criticisms over accuracy you better not miss
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like jfc it’s always my tamest jokes that trigger you lemmings. (Not the person I was replying to, they got the joke)
But no I was in fact not making a criticism over accuracy. Enjoy your dogpile.
I think OPs point is, regardless of other depictions, Andromeda is said to be from a country of darker-skinned people.
the daughter of Cepheus, the king of Aethiopia
Andromeda is said to be not just an abstract woman from Aethiopia, but a daughter of king Cepheus (son of Belus and Achiroë — both Egyptians) and Cassiopeia (proceeding from Aeolia, Greece). That might be explaining why in the historical images, she’s depicted with her skin lighter than that of the very Greek Perseus.
Assuming her skin color from the common name of the people her parents supposedly ruled over is approximately the same as saying that the children of Columbus were indigenous (which is, funnily enough, kinda true since he had an adopted indigenous son Diego).
I am personally offended they chose an attractive woman. I find that objectifying and an unfair body standard for those of us with average physical features, or as doctors call us “normies”.
TBF, “burnt”+“face”=/= “blackface”, as it wasn’t implied it was makeup, but simply their natural coloration. From your link: (emphasis: mine)
The Greek name Aithiopia (Αἰθιοπία, from Αἰθίοψ, Aithíops) is a compound derived of two Greek words: αἴθω, aíthō, ‘I burn’ + ὤψ, ṓps, ‘face’. According to the Perseus Digital Library, this designation properly translates in noun form as burnt-face and in adjectival form as red-brown.[10][11] "As such, it was used as a vague term for darker skinned populations than the Greeks since the time of Homer.[note 1][12] The term was applied to such peoples within the range of observation of the ancient geographers, primarily in what was then Nubia (in ancient Sudan). With the expansion of geographical knowledge, the exonym successively extended to certain other areas below the Sahara. In classical antiquity, the term Africa did not refer to any part of sub-Saharan Africa, but rather, in its widest sense, to Ancient Libya—what is now known as the Maghreb and the desert to the south.
