古希腊的奴隶有黑人吗? 第1页

有人买了一个黑奴，以为他的肤色是因为原来的主人的大意而为，带回家后，用许多肥皂和水想要把他洗干净。可是黑奴肤色丝毫没有一点转变，他自己却因辛苦大病一场。
这故事说明，生来就有的东西始终会保留着原始的样子。
——《伊索寓言》11 Chambry

但是据说很少：

More usually, however, slaves purchased in Greece had come from alien cultures around the Greek world, especially from the north and from western Asia Minor. A few others came from further afield. Black slaves seem to have been comparatively few and were presumably prized all the more for their rarity. The fact that the makers of Greek terracottas had the fancy to depict black Africans affects the issue only in that it may mislead.^[1]

参考

1. ^ D. Braund, "The Slave Supply in Classical Greece", in K. Bradley and P. Cartledge (eds.), The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol.1, The Ancient Mediterranean World (Cambridge, 2011), 112-133 at 126.