id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-3801	Snowden, Jr, Frank M.	Asclepiades’ Didyme	1991	15	.pdf	application/pdf	6637	258	58	Nor is there any evidence that blacks of the first centuries after Christ suffered in their day-to-day con­ tacts with whites as a result of the metaphorical associations of black-white SNOWDEN, FRANK M., JR, Asclepiades' Didyme , Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 32:3 (1991:Autumn) p.239 252 ASCLEPIADES' DIDYME If Didyme, as Cameron suggests, was a mistress of Ptolemy Philadelphus, Asclepiades may have thought that by the choice of the name of a royal mistress for the tribute in his epigram, he was adding special point to his view, shared by others, that black beauties were among those who inspired the rejection of the prevailing norm image. 1 f. SNOWDEN, FRANK M., JR, Asclepiades' Didyme , Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 32:3 (1991:Autumn) p.239 FRANK M. SNOWDEN, JR 241 command of a general Uni, included Nubian contingents.6 Stelae (ca 2180-2040 B.C.) portraying black archers with broad noses, thick lips, and hair edged with dots show that Nubians and their wives, sometimes Egyptian, were established at Gebelein, near Thebes, late in the third millennium B.C.7 And the presence of a sizable Nubian element in the population of Gebelein is attested by the boast of a resident soldier that he surpassed the whole town in swiftness-its Nubians and Upper Egyptians (AEL 90).	cache/grbs-3801.pdf	txt/grbs-3801.txt