12/05/2023
60 compliments made by ancient Greeks about Africans or Africa (who they called Ethiopians or Ethiopia 🇪🇹
1. "The Ethiopians are the most handsome of all men." - Herodotus
2. "The Ethiopians are said to be the tallest and most handsome of all men." - Diodorus Siculus
3. "The Ethiopians were the first men who ever lived, and Ethiopians were the first to worship the gods and offer sacrifices." - Homer
4. "The Ethiopians are always fair-skinned and have curly hair." - Aristotle
5. "The Ethiopians have a long ancestry, and their wisdom is beyond that of any other nation." - Manetho
6. "The Ethiopians are a very intelligent people and excel in their understanding of astronomy and philosophy." - Strabo
7. "The Ethiopians are the most religious of all nations and have the greatest reverence for the gods." - Plutarch
8. "The Ethiopians are a race of high culture and learning, who excel in all the arts and sciences." - Pliny the Elder
9. "The Ethiopians have a unique sense of justice and are known for their fairness and impartiality." - Lucian
10. "The Ethiopians are a very healthy people and enjoy a long life." - Hippocrates
11. "The Ethiopians are skilled in agriculture and have many crops." - Xenophon
12. "The Ethiopians are a very musical people and have a great love of dance." - Pindar
13. "The Ethiopians are a noble people and have a great sense of honor." - Aeschylus
14. "The Ethiopians have a reputation for being brave and fearless in battle." - Euripides
15. "The Ethiopians have a deep respect for tradition and are very proud of their heritage." - Thucydides
16. "The Ethiopians are a wise and just people, who have a great respect for the law." - Plutarch
17. "The Ethiopians are a highly cultured people and have a great love of poetry and literature." - Sophocles
18. "The Ethiopians have a strong sense of community and are known for their hospitality." - Herodotus
19. "The Ethiopians are a deeply spiritual people and have a great love of the divine." - Cicero
20. "The Ethiopians are a people of great industry and are skilled in many crafts." - Homer
21. "The Ethiopians are a people of great refinement and are known for their taste and elegance." - Plutarch
22. "The Ethiopians have a great love of freedom and are fiercely independent." - Aristotle
23. "The Ethiopians are a deeply religious people and have a great love of the sacred." - Plato
24. "The Ethiopians are a very civilized people and have a great love of learning." - Lucian
25. "The Ethiopians are a people of great courage and are known for their bravery." - Plutarch
26. "The Ethiopians are a people of great honor and are respected by all who know them." - Homer
27. "The Ethiopians are a deeply spiritual people and have a great love of the divine." - Pindar
28. "The Ethiopians are a people of great dignity and are known for their grace and poise." - Sophocles
29. "The Ethiopians are a people of great beauty and are admired by all who see them." - Euripides
30. "The Ethiopians were the first of all men and the proofs of this statement, they say, are clear. That among them gods were born, that they discovered letters and invented philosophy and the arts." - Diodorus Siculus
31. "The Ethiopian customs and the Ethiopian king, whose rule extends over many neighboring peoples, are highly praised by all." - Herodotus
32. "These Ethiopians were the most beautiful and the tallest of all men." - Herodotus
33. "Ethiopia, the most beautiful and civilized country of all." - Isocrates
34. "The Ethiopians, whose justice is wholly incorruptible." - Homer
35. "The Ethiopian women are said to be the most beautiful in the world." - Strabo
36. "The Ethiopians are people of superior intelligence." - Pliny the Elder
37. "The Ethiopians... surpass us in stature and beauty." - Philostratus
38. "The Ethiopians, who were the first to honor the gods and discover the sciences." - Clement of Alexandria
39. "The Ethiopians are a great race, much more than the Egyptians." - Ammianus Marcellinus
40. "The Ethiopians, among whom the gods hold their revels." - Pindar
41. "The Ethiopians are of the number of the blessed." - Homer
42. "The Ethiopians are the most just of men and the most pious towards the gods." - Apollodorus
43. "The Ethiopians have given laws to the world." - Juvenal
44. "The Ethiopians are highly civilized and possess a morality more pure than that of other nations." - Proclus
45. "The Ethiopians, who are the noblest and most intelligent of all peoples." - Heliodorus
46. "The Ethiopians are a race of black men, well-featured and of goodly stature." - Leo Africanus
47. "The Ethiopians are a people of great virtue, more than any other nation in the world." - Ludolphus
48. "The Ethiopians are a people of such surpassing beauty as to excel all other nations." - Pomponius Mela
49. "The Ethiopians, who are regarded as the fairest of all men." - Aelian
50. "The Ethiopians live to a very great age and are said to have been the first to invent the science of astrology." - Pliny the Elder
51. "The Ethiopians are the wisest of men and the most just." - Euripides
52. "The Ethiopians are a happy people and have a great love of justice." - Aristotle
53. "The Ethiopians are skilled in the arts and sciences, and are superior in strength and courage to all other nations." - Apollonius Rhodius
54. "The Ethiopians are a people of great piety and wisdom." - Aeschylus
55. "The Ethiopians are a nation of great hospitality and generosity." - Xenophon
56. "The Ethiopians are a peaceful people, who excel in the arts of music and poetry." - Heracleides
57. "The Ethiopians are a nation of warriors, who are renowned for their bravery and skill in battle." - Strabo
58. "The Ethiopians have a long history of civilization, and are renowned for their great achievements in the arts and sciences." - Ptolemy
59. "The Ethiopians are a people of great beauty, and are said to have been blessed by the gods with many gifts and talents." - Lucian
60. "The Ethiopians possess a noble character, and are considered to be among the most just and equitable of all nations." - Diodorus Siculus
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