Time for #CLAS2010 tweet-thread number 5! Last week we looked at the three predominant racial theories in antiquity - environmental, genetic, and cultural. This week, we are continuing our investigation into race and ethnicity in the ancient world by focusing on skin colour... In order to investigate the perception of skin colour in antiquity, the class was structured around three key areas: 1) the terminology of colour; 2) polychromy in ancient art; and 3) representations of diversity in ancient art and modern media #CLAS2010

So I’m going to struggle to livetweet @wmarybeard ‘s lecture because the room is WAY over capacity + they’ve had to open up extra screens to expand the room - standing room only. This seems like very poor planning - clearly this room was never going to be big enough! #AIASCS Panic over - @pjmillerCLAS found some chairs for our little group! I think we might be close to starting now #AIASCS