Roman elite and beauty ideal = Norids?

[Celto-Germanic]

Alexander the Great ( Roman mosaic 2nd - 1st century BC )




Rich family from Pompeii ( 1st century BC - 1st century AD )




Caracalla ( 2nd - 3rd century AD )




Emperor Gallienus ( 3rd century AD )

Except those are all cherrypicked. Caracalla is always brought up and those families don't look physiologically similar to the typical Roman elite busts at all.

"Apelles, however, in painting him as wielder of the thunder-bolt, did not reproduce his complexion, but made it too dark and swarthy. Whereas he was of a fair colour, as they say, and his fairness passed into ruddiness on his breast particularly, and in his face." (Wikipedia on Alexander the great)

I don't get it guys, I'm not denying mediterraneans were the dominant element within the Roman population, but some people seem religiously motivated to completely deny any influence from more northern elements, which makes no logical sense as they were obviously Indo-European in cultural and linguistic root, and with those things comes genetics. The upper indian castes and rajputs had more Indo-European admixture which continues to this day. The same can be implied for Europe both North and South. Are we to assume the same would not have happened in the italian peninsula?

[renaissance12]

In other words, regions not connected the the Rhine river highway. Not the sharpest of arguments.

River..?

[sean]

[Token]

The busts are not Noric. Norics have high cranial vaults, elongated faces and brachycephalic heads. The basic Roman patrician type was low-vaulted, short (often rounded and square) faced, with a mesocephalic head shape and often heavy body build. In most aspects, it differed little from the Keltic Iron Age type.

[Tenma de Pegasus]

In assassins creed oddissey these statues with no colors have colors and they dont look north european, just the average Mediterranean with dark hair and white or olive skin. Their face are also dinaro-med, med, dinarid, litorid and east med.

[Zeno]

Wow, and yet some people here claim that only southern Euros got problems...

Look at all the unironical anthrotarded Nordicists here. Just take a good bloody look at the mirror.

[Campu]

Nah, i think it’d be atlanto-med and alpine-med since most actual romans would have predominantly this two types, not norid/dinarid/dinaromed even though im sure you also had the later types being somewhat present as well, just not as much as the first ones

[HelpOswald]

Nordic is the only real beauty ideal.

[Asten]

Nordic is the only real beauty ideal.

Alpine-med female are more good looking than nordic in my eyes.

[Cristiano viejo]

Alpine-med female are more good looking than nordic in my eyes.

Except Anglosaxon any type is more goodlooking than Nordic.