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In antiquity, Memnon, one of the greatest heroes of the Trojan War, was an Ethiopian; Julius Caesar and later Octavian adopted a North African, Juba II, who went on to become a distinguished scholar and soldier, and married a Greek princess, Cleopatra; and Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, was a Phoenician, yet virtually worshipped by the Athenians.
In the Thalia, Herodotus describes the ancient Somalians (or Macrobians) as being among the most beautiful and powerful people in the world, and capable of resisting the full might of the Persian Empire.
Hesiod refers to the "high-souled Aethiopians" as being "black-skins." (Catalogue of Women, 700 B. C.)
Memnon, the Ethiopian before-mentioned, Homer (the father of Western literature) makes an allusion to in the Odyssey; and he was a prominent part of the lost epic "Aethiopis." Homer, incidentally, also portrays the Trojans just as sympathetically as the Greeks, and is humanistic in his outlook rather than blindly nationalist.
The black cities of Aksum and Meroe, in modern-day Sudan and Ethiopia, were well-respected by the ancients as powers and civilizations.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meroë
In the 18th century you had such eminent coloured men as the Chevalier de St-Georges, champion fencer, classical composer, virtuoso violinist, and conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris. He served as a colonel of the Légion St.-Georges, and is sometimes called the "Black Mozart."
Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, also known as "il Moro," the son of an African slave, was ruling over Florence, the most cultured city in Europe, in the 16th century.
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