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haele

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13. Back in Homer's day - in a play, Helen would have been portrayed by a boy...
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 11:20 AM
Feb 3

And looking at most of the surviving friezes and pottery, the ideal beauty would have been for a large nose and lips, a thick unibrow, and kinky or curly frizzy hair done up in tight braids or twists.
They would have been North African or Middle Eastern/Turkyic looking people at the time, dark haired and very "tanned".

Only the Northern Greeks, the Macedonians, had blonde (or light brunette) hair and more Celtic features.

Modern dude-bros and KKK types got to ditch the Victorian Art and Comic Book depictions of Classical Literature and get with the history....

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