Shoudn't Andromeda be black?

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Actually, thanks for the bump you must have increased my chances of getting my question answeared.

It's anyone's guess, but Ethiopian could have meant any number of things, including Afro-Arab. The Ethiopians of that time were probably blacker than the Egyptians.

Memnon of the Iliad was also Ethiopian, so give that a look too.

That's what puzzles me, when you see Memnon representations he's clearly black while later artists seem to have failed in doing basic research.

The ancient Ethiopia isn't the same as the modern one. There isn't a consensus about where the Ethiopians from antiquity were from.
Some vases from the 5th century BC depict andromeda being chained. She is depicted as white and the people doing the chaining are black.

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But aren't we talking about the Mythological Aethiopia and even so: Αἰθίοψ (Aithiops), meaning "burnt-face", was used as a vague term for dark-skinned populations since the time of Homer.
She should be at least dark skinned.

Only good work here, rest are just porn or video game tier

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There's something really terrifying about this one to me. I'm terrified by dark bodies of water and this is really getting me good

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Hottest one ITT. It makes it even hotter knowing that a real girl posed like this for hours in the artist's studio.

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Great contribuition to this thread

Hey man. Shouldn't you be black?

This has bothered me.
I thought perhaps Andromeda lived before the niggers were enniggered by Phæthon.
But no, Phæthon is in Ovid's second book, Andromeda in his fourth.
However, her father was a son of Belus, and the cousin of Cadmus & Europa. So even if the people were niggers, the royal family probably wasn't.
The Romans, it seems, portrayed her as white, as we see here.
Memnon isn't in the Iliad.

How would one describe this body type?

And here are my contributions to the nudity.

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This Eos here is really cute.

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These hips.

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Doesn't Ovid skip around a bit though? I used to picture Andromeda being dark skinned, but then Ovid explicitly stated that she was white. Maybe Cassiopeia was from a Greek colony or something

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This one is my favorite; her face and hair are so pretty, and how her breasts and the outline of her leg are barely visible through her dress...

>tfw no Homeric literalist gf

It's possible that the Perseus story is in a frame, I'd have to check closer.
Moreover, we should understand that the works of Ovid, Catullus, and Virgil are all highly playful and not at all attempts to straightforwardly set down tradition. One of the professors at my uni has a book all about their constant deliberate discontinuity. But seeing as how Ovid has become the canonical source for post-pagan depictions, it's still worth checking if it has an explanation in him.
>Maybe Cassiopeia was from a Greek colony or something
Pretty much what I was proposing, though in this case the colony would Phoenician (or Proto-Semitic or whatever)