I'm divided so I put "No". Some Greeks are true ancient Greek descendants but since ancient Greece there have been many invasions and immigration. I can't say all modern Greeks are descendants of ancient Greeks because that isn't fair.
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I'm divided so I put "No". Some Greeks are true ancient Greek descendants but since ancient Greece there have been many invasions and immigration. I can't say all modern Greeks are descendants of ancient Greeks because that isn't fair.
From Dienekes:
Angel noted that from the earliest times to the present “racial continuity in Greece is striking.”
Buxton who had earlier studied Greek skeletal material and measured modern Greeks, finds that the modern Greeks “possess physical characteristics not differing essentially from those of the former [ancient Greeks].”
The most extensive study of modern Greeks has been carried by the Greek anthropologist Aris N. Poulianos [10,11]. Poulianos’ study included the collection and study of more than seventy anthropometric measurements from a large sample of thousands of Greeks from different parts of the country. His main conclusions are that both Greeks and their neighboring populations are basically a mixture of Aegeans (a Mediterranean type local to the area) and Epirotics (Dinarics(e)) and are descended from the ancient inhabitants of the lands in which they live.
http://dienekes.110mb.com/articles/hellenes/
You judge another nation by your customs....
The fact that we are one of the few nations on earth that we considered mixing as lowlife practice for the last 2000 years means nothing to you....
The fact that those that you called "mixed" Greeks have the same face and you cant tell them apart from isolated Greek populations (Cretans, Spartans, South Italians) or from populations that had totally different kind of conquerors (Ionian islands) also mean nothing to you...
Is like telling me you have a a piece of yellow colored isolated somewhere so you know that this is yellow for sure (Spartans), then someone brings you another piece of yellow but tell you...you know, this was once yellow (Macedonians, Thessalians etc) but i had it in the same storage with blue (Slavs,Turks) so i dont think is pure yellow anymore, i think is green (mixed).. then you take of your isolated piece and you see that they look the same... so how on earth was the other mixed? Theories are theories.. and obvious facts are that facts....
:rolleyes:Of course not, all the ancient greeks vanished into thin air without producing any offspring...:coffee:
must have been all those goats
They are mostly descended from Hellenized PIE Greeks and minor IE Greeks>which is reasonable since they were probably a ruling class and a minority back in ancient times.