A self-described “woke idiot” reacted to a first look image of Kratos and Atreus for Prime Video’s God of War series by claiming they “white washed” Kratos.
Uh huh, sure. There are many Greek statues that have survived the centuries and boy oh boy do they look like white people. I hate reggins and Liberals so much.
The features are very Caucasian and I'd say broader and more masculine than modern "Greeks" who have had millennia of interbreeding with Semitic, Persian, North African, and Turkish peoples.
I'd be very curious what DNA said about the Greek genome circa 500 BC vs. modern day.
Fun fact: pure white marble is how the statues appear TODAY, and we've adopted that as aesthetic beauty (rightfully so I'd say), but the statues were all originally painted, often garishly so, in bright, flat colors. Recreations look so clownish I'm hesitant on a personal level to accept the research, but it'd be a retarded thing to fake.
This is just factually wrong. You need to search the Dunning-Kruger effect - that's you.
The statues were actually painted. The surface has been weathered and eroded. If you search Polychromy, you can see that the statues were not white. The skin color of various statues would have varied depending if the individual was from Southern Europe, North Africa, or the Near East. They used Ochre and Hematite for skin tones.
I've always been far more concerned with how poorly this series handled actual Greek Mythology.
It's too bad we don't have an Olympian fandom to skewer all the non-canon elements.
But then again, reddit mods and tumblrinas would just infest it and start writing gay Hades x Orpheus fanfiction, Apollo x Artemis incest (the only hetero couplings these weirdos allow), and long diatribes about how the Minotaur did nothing wrong and Theseus was a zealot-crusader who persecuted the noble religious practice of human sacrifice.
Uh huh, sure. There are many Greek statues that have survived the centuries and boy oh boy do they look like white people. I hate reggins and Liberals so much.
The features are very Caucasian and I'd say broader and more masculine than modern "Greeks" who have had millennia of interbreeding with Semitic, Persian, North African, and Turkish peoples.
I'd be very curious what DNA said about the Greek genome circa 500 BC vs. modern day.
Fun fact: pure white marble is how the statues appear TODAY, and we've adopted that as aesthetic beauty (rightfully so I'd say), but the statues were all originally painted, often garishly so, in bright, flat colors. Recreations look so clownish I'm hesitant on a personal level to accept the research, but it'd be a retarded thing to fake.
This is just factually wrong. You need to search the Dunning-Kruger effect - that's you.
The statues were actually painted. The surface has been weathered and eroded. If you search Polychromy, you can see that the statues were not white. The skin color of various statues would have varied depending if the individual was from Southern Europe, North Africa, or the Near East. They used Ochre and Hematite for skin tones.
He wasn't referring to the marble. He said they look like white people.
This is flat earther level of stupidity. Or a fat troll. But I think - it’s the former
It can be both.
*looks at Netflix's "Queen Cleopatra"*
I like how they black washed the greek girl.
Spartans were blonde with blue eyes.
I am Greek and I assure you I am white as cotton. Tanned is not black or brown. Cut the crap!
“Whiteness is a concept” What load of BS.
I've always been far more concerned with how poorly this series handled actual Greek Mythology.
It's too bad we don't have an Olympian fandom to skewer all the non-canon elements.
But then again, reddit mods and tumblrinas would just infest it and start writing gay Hades x Orpheus fanfiction, Apollo x Artemis incest (the only hetero couplings these weirdos allow), and long diatribes about how the Minotaur did nothing wrong and Theseus was a zealot-crusader who persecuted the noble religious practice of human sacrifice.