Archaic Greek in a modern world

[Groenewolf]

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It is a short video, but might be interesting.

[Óttar]

Funny how these super-Greeks, Ionians, didn't get transferred to Greece. I bet the extent of their "Islam" is reciting a few Quran verses at funerals.

[Guapo]

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It is a short video, but might be interesting.

Great video and music, I've known about these ancient speaking Pontic Greeks in Turky before but never bothered to search on youtube for anything.

[poiuytrewq0987]

If these people are remnants of the Greeks left behind after the fall of the Byzantine Empire then it is possible that our glimpse of them will give us an idea of what Byzantine Greeks looked like? I also found it interesting that a lot of them are light-skinned and light-eyed unlike mainland Greeks who tend to be the opposite on a common basis.

[jerney]

I also found it interesting that a lot of them are light-skinned and light-eyed unlike mainland Greeks who tend to be the opposite on a common basis.

Many Greeks in Athens are really swarthy, but outside Athens you can find many light haired, skinned, eyed people.

[Vasconcelos]

Many Greeks in Athens are really swarthy, but outside Athens you can find many light haired, skinned, eyed people.

Of course, not everyone in mediterranean areas has dark pigmentation, just the (large) majority.


not that this is a really accurate map, but wtv

[Guapo]

Many Greeks in Athens are really swarthy, but outside Athens you can find many light haired, skinned, eyed people.

Typical, miscegenation always happens in larger cities.

[Vasconcelos]

Perhaps, but as far as I know Athens was a kind of tiny "city" during the Ottoman Era.

Athens was chosen to be the capital of the newly established kingdom of Greece. At that time, the city was virtually uninhabited, being merely a cluster of buildings at the foot of the Acropolis, where the Plaka district is now.

Maybe it's just jerney's perception

[jerney]

Perhaps, but as far as I know Athens was a kind of tiny "city" during the Ottoman Era.


Maybe it's just jerney's perception

It's not my perception, anyone with eyes can see the how phenotypes differ in the villages and outside of Athens. Of course there are light Greeks in Athens too, but there is a high number of swarthy people, at least from my perspective. I guess this actually makes sense because Maniot said many Greeks from Asia Minor moved to Athens which can account for the darker, more "exotic" appearance you can find among Athenians today.

[Vasconcelos]

Makes sense