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The myth of Nordic Romans:

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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑜-𝐹𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠:

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𝑅𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑠: Part 1: Spiritual pollution and purification

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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜-𝐸𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑠:

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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠:

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It goes without saying that nordicism is as embarrassingly unfounded in truth as other pseudo historical movements like afrocentrism or panturanism.

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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠: Part 6: The Osci

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When Nordicists were faced with the civilizational achievements of the Italians and Greeks (who were racially inferior according to them), the 'logical' conclusion was that the ancient Romans and Hellenes had in truth been Nordic themselves before being 'racially diluted'.

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This is easily refuted by Republican-era iconographic evidence, where the overwhelming majority of figures are depicted with Mediterranean features (tanned 'olive' skin for men, pale complexion for women, dark hair and eyes).

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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠: Part 1: The Tuscan League of Twelve Cities.

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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑙𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠:

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Even when we look at Republican Rome's contemporaries in the peninsula, who would have assumedly had a lot less 'foreign import' than the seemingly more cosmopolitan Rome, the pictorial evidence still shows a total majority of southern european features.

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𝑅𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑠: Part 2: Sacrifice, reciprocity and grace

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In the myriad of claims about the true appearance of ancient peoples the 'theory' of the 'Nordic Romans' stands out. I will first by analyze the original theory and then rely on iconographic and literary evidence to support my arguments against it;

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The Romans' own understanding of 'race' seems to discredit the Nordic theory as seen with Lucian of Samosata's use of μέλᾱς (𝑚𝑒́𝑙𝑎̄𝑠, black) for the Aetheopians, Λεῦκος (𝑙𝑒𝑢𝑘𝑜́𝑠, white) for the Romans and Greeks and ξανθός (𝑥𝑎𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜́𝑠, blond) for the Celts.

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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑽𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒎, 𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔:

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The claim does not argue the Romans spoke a Germanic tongue (Proto-Italic and Proto-Germanic split at some point in the early bronze age from the broader PIE language), but rather that the 'true' Romans, specifically the aristocracy, were of the 'Nordic Race'.

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This 'Nordic Race' is a 19th century categorization that includes modern Germanic (and at times Celtic, Baltic and Slavic) peoples and is defined by pale skin and light hair and eye color. Nordicism by extension, is the belief that this 'Nordic race' is inherently superior.

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The Roman 'otherization' of Nordic features is also seen as well in Petronius, note how the Gauls (whom are considered Nordic by Seiglin and Günther) are seen as different to the Roman protagonists as Arabs, Jews and Ethiopians.

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The 'Nordic Aristocracy' theory also does not explain the propensity for noble women to import wigs from Gaul and Germania. It goes without saying that a desire for these seemingly 'exotic' wigs is evidence that most aristocratic women did not have natural blonde or red hair.

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𝑂𝑛 𝐼𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑚:

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Only 4 emperors are described as 'blond' and/or grey-eyed by primary sources; (such as Suetonius, Pliny or Plutarch) Augustus, Caligula, Nero and Galba. Note the use of 'subflavum' (meaning tawny or dirty-blond) rather than 'flavum' used to describe the Celts and Germans.

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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑎 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎: Part 1: The poleis of the Gulf

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If anything due to the later Germanic migrations into Italy, 'Nordic' features become somewhat more prominent post-fall of the Western half of the empire in late antiquity/early middle-ages, rather than before during the Republican period as Günther argued.

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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠: Part 2: The Padanian League

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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠: Part 1: The Umbri

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Günther argues that the original IE Romans were all blond haired and light eyed but that their mass importation of specifically Levantine slaves in the Imperial period supposedly diluted the Romans to the point of creating the supposed 'lesser' modern Italians.

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The two strongest proponents of the 'Nordic Romans' theory were Wilhelm Sieglin in his "Die blonden Haare der indogermanischen Völker des Altertums (1935)" and Hans F. K. Günther in his "Lebensgeschichte des römischen Volkes (1957)".

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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑠:

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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑠:

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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑟 𝐺𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑦:

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Unsurprisingly non-Nordic features are described more often. The rarity of these features is also exemplified by the Flavia and Rufia families (meaning blond and red haired respectively), likely called as such because of their rarity respective other noble families.

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Some would still refute this evidence and argue that only the nobility was Nordic. The most used literary evidence for the 'Nordic Romans' theory are the works of the Byzantine Malalas and Cedrenus, who are several centuries removed from their topics of description.

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