What did ancient Greeks really look like?

Question

What I am talking about is facial reconstructions of ancient skulls like they do on TV. You know how they do with Ancient Pharohs well how come I NEVER see Ancient Greeks and Romans reconstructed?

Kind of like the study Popular Mechanics did on "What Jesus may have looked like" based on what people of the area looked like 1000's of years ago..

Answer 1

most likely, pretty close to modern Greeks, however with a little less Roman blood in them.

Answer 2

I believe there was a variety of colors and shapes, but they were mostly dark, they had wide eyes, Greek noses etc. They probably look like the modern Greeks.

Answer 3

I think that is because humans' faces don't vary so much since those times. I think there isn't much of a difference at all, maybe a slight one but not a lot.

Answer 4

bodily- probably not. human beings in historic circumstances were way shorter, and that i'm confident their faces were critically diverse. i imagine human beings from black and white videos seem strange, i will basically imagine how human beings appeared in the previous then.

Answer 5

Here is what Socrates looked like.

Kind of like W.C. Fields...

Answer 6

LONGISH HAIR WHICH WAS NATURALLY CURLLY AND WAVY,ALL HAIR COLORS WERE EXHIBITED;BUT BLACK WAS THE NORM!!THE COMMON PEOPLE LIVED A VERY EXPOSED LIFE AND HAD TO RELY ON WOODFIRES FOR WARMTH!!MUCH OF THE FOODSTUFFS WERE PRODUCTS OF THE SEA;OCTOPUS,SQUID,FISH;SO THAT WEATHER EXPOSURE WOULD WRINKLE THE SKIN AND TAN AND MAKE DARK THE SKIN OF THE YOUTHS!!!OLIVE OIL WAS USED AS AN OVERALL SKIN CARE AGAINST THESE EFFECTS,ALL VISITORS TO A VILLA OR HOUSE WERE IMMEDIATELY BATHED AND OILED UPON ENTRY AS A SHOW OF COURTESY"TO TREAT EVERYONE LIKE A GOD",NEW SANDALS WERE ALSO ROUTINELY ISSUED TO GUESTS AND VISITORS FOR THE SAME REASON!!WARS FOUGHT LOCALLY TO PROTECT GRAIN SUPLUSES WERE FOUGHT BY LEVIES OF PEASANTS,FARMERS AND NOBLES WHO HELD POSITION BY VIRTUE OF BEING HEREDITERY PROTECTORS AND MEN OF WAR!!SCARS AND WOUNDS WOULD BE COMMON!!MEN OF MATURE AGE WORE BEARDS!!THE CLOTHING OF DIFFERENT SEASONS WERE TUNICS AND CITONS OF PLEATED,GATHERED FABRIC TIED AT THE WAIST WITH A CINCTURE;MANT TOPS WERE HELD BY BROOCHES AT THE SHOULDERS WHICH COULD BE LOOSED LEAVING THE CHEST AND BUSTS UNENCUMBERED IN HOT WEATHER!!CLOAKS WERE USED IN FOUL WEATHER OR IN WAR OVER ALL OTHER GARMENTS AND AS A SHEILD TO METAL OR LAMINAR ARMOR!!THE WEAPONS OF CHOICE WERE LANCES,SHIELDS,KOPIS SWORDS,SHORT AND LONG SWORDS.DAGGERS AND AXES!!COMPOSITE BOWS AND ARROWS HAD BEEN BROUGHT FROM WARS IN ASIA AND PERSIA!! THE SLING AS ALWAYS WAS USED IN WAR AND AS A SHEPARD'S DEFENSE FOR THEIR HERDS OF GOATS AND SHEEP!!WOOL COTTON AND SILK GARMENTS WERE WORN!!FINE EMBROIDERY WAS USED AND GOL AND SILVER THREAD ODORNED THE PURPLE AND SILKEN GARMENT OF ROYALTY!!GREECE WAS NOT A SINGLE NATION;BUT A LOOSE SOMETIMES QUARRELING COMPLEX OF CITY STATES!!SLAVERY WAS COMMON AND THERE WERE BLACKS AND PEOPLE OF COLOR IN ALL PORTS AND CITIES THROUGHOUT GREEK HISTORY!!SEAFARING AND ADVENTUROUS PEOPLE THEY CONQUERED AND DEFINED THE KNOWN WORLD FOR AGES!!THE STONEWORK OF CUZCO IN PERU IS REMARKABLLY SIMILAR TO THE MINOAN AND ACHAEAN "CYCLOPEAN" STONEWORK OF TYRINS,MYCENAE AND EARLY GREEK SITES ELSE WHERE!!THEIR TRIREMES AND BIREMES DISCOVERED AND COLONIZED ALL OF THE MEDITERRAEAN!!THEIR BRONZES GIVE US CLUES AS TO THEIR IDEAL IMAGES AND PROPORTIONS OF FORM IN THE FEMALE AND THE MALE BODY!!AND MUCH OF WHAT WE ARE GENETICALLY AND CULTURALLY IS GREEK AT IT'S GENESIS!!!YOU SHOULD THEREFORE LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND REMEMBER FROM WHENCE DEMOCRACY SPRUNG!!

Answer 7

They probably looked like all their statues (they did do a lot of them) except with eyes / corneas .

Answer 8

like the rest of us

Answer 9

they looked more northern european,but the influx of arabs and turks change their appearance to what you have today.