Is it true blacks were in ancient greece

 

Yes, it is also possible there were some Inuit, Japanese and Indonesian slaves in Greece as well

 

I believe the problem is that people projects the present to the past... that's all.

 

Pinguin

 

 

All I was saying was that there were black slaves, not brilliant minds, and most certainly not vikings, a group of people the ancient Greeks would call Barbarians

I see Decebal - but look at modern day Turks - you can get Ginger ones (quite rare) or very dark ones I guess it's the same with Greeks.

 

There can't have been many slaves who were black for obvious reasons, but even less, because actually (not many people actually know this) slavery wasn't an integral part of the culture of a Greek polis. There were expections - in some of the Dorian states such as the Spartans/Lacedemonians, Phocian and Locrians, slavery was. But one examines Athens, Attic states and Ionian states, slavery did help, but only to make the lives of those who were comfortable a little more comfortable. Since large scale agriculture hadn't been utlized on poor Greek soil (Sparta is an exception, for their land was pretty good for Greece...), one man could roughly farm enough food for himself. An agricultural slave was a burden, and for the average citizen, who had to go to work, attend the citizen's assembly and do his own things, keeping an industry of slaves was too much work. The average Greek polis was based on collaboration of ALL the citizens - government on a scale comprehensable to the people - every Greek citizen was expected to turn up - not enforced, just because the polis and their participation was the Greek way of life. So he just didn't have time to organise the buerocracy needed to have an army of slaves. Remember that Cleon (that's right, the famous Cleon) was a leather-worker, and Solon was origionally a simple trader, so not all Greek citizens were that rich. ...So as for African slaves, there can't have been that many ordinary slaves to begin with, LET ALONE African ones. Although we can't dispute the fact that once, in one Greek polis, somewhere, there was a black slave - or even citizen.