Black Achilles

The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black – or as something else altogether?

by Tim Whitmarsh

https://aeon.co/essays/when-homer-envisioned-achilles-did-he-see-a-black-man?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a89c7b1537-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_07_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Books about Achilles at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=achilles

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