Did ancient Greeks and Romans think ancient Middle Easterners were racially inferior to them...

I doubt it, Greeks and Romans didn't even have pants.
Romans adopted the Mithras religion from Persia, not that it has anything to do with race.

Probably the same.

Probably most people in the Middle East aren't actually biological Arabs, from the Arabian peninsula. Levantines, Syrians, Mesopotamians etc. look different from Gulf Arabs.

IIRC, Greeks had the view that people in the rest of Europe lived free but were savages, people in the middle east were civilized but lived in Tyranny, and that Greece had the best of both worlds. There was a writer who basically stated that, but maybe he was just speaking for himself.

The Romans were easily among the most organized and technically adept cultures in the known world when they were dominant, so it's not hard to see why they'd view others as barbarians.

That all said, "race" is more of a modern concept that they didn't really have, as evidenced by the fact that Greeks and Romans really didn't feel any sort of kinship with Europeans in general, or even Meds in general.

They weren't goatfucking inbred savages who believed in a schizophrenic paedophile then, so maybe no.

Greeks and Romans had a respect for each other. Granted they were part of the Roman Empire, but they were given an usually large amount of self rule prior to and after Christianity.
Despite what you heard about Roman orgies and vomit rooms and such, the Romans were incredibly prudish, so much that it was a point of mockery by early Christians. The stories you heard were mostly made up by the Normans, who wanted to make Christian Rome seem superior to Pagan Rome.
From old writings, the Greeks generally regarded the Romans as humorless, rigid, incapable of showing love or affection, incompetent due to meritocracy and military hierarchy.
The Romans generally regarded the Greeks as hedonistic, lustful, lazy, too concerned with status, and incompetent due to nepotism.

I don't know much about Arab ethnic ancestry, etc.

Arabs were a later people to come on through. You run into errors when you try to equate current population groups with the previous ones. Are the people of Rome today going to field a mighty disciplined field army to take on Europe through complex logistics and building their own great wonders? Populations don't stay the same, unless you're Japan. Even the English on their island had waves of foreigners. Where are the Engels that lend their name to England?

greeks didn't really have a concept of race in the modern sense. they judged based on language, religious rituals and beliefs, and mythological lineage more than anything.

Yep you can see this in ancient empires growing strong, yet the decedents are always dithering around. You need some white blood to make civilization great.

A lot of greeks and romans called anyone else than greeks and romans barbarians so yes that would be a reasonable assumption

yes, the word "bárbaros" (barbarian) was used by the ancient Greeks to designate non-greeks and also uncivilized tribes and peoples

No that was mainly the Barbey people. The refereed to others as Thrace, Gaul, Slav.
There are words that arose from these; gall / slave for example.

Take Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, he was killed for trying to essentially create a House and Senate, by including Gauls within the Senate of Rome. He took the name Germanicus to show unity with the Gaulic and German people; Germanicus - of German - or - with German.

This is what makes me suspect that the east Asians (China, Japan, Korea) may have some white admixture, though I'm not certain. There is some evidence, considering the Causasian red-headed mummies of Western China (Tarim mummies) and the indigenous Ainu people of Japan, etc.

>also, dem giant pyramids in the interior of China

Romans hated them all, Greeks included. Here's Livy calling Syrians and Hellenized west asians a most disgusting race of slaves, pic related.

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barbar comes from the language that ancient nubians spoke.

not really, they were egyptboos and persia was like the ultimate power back then until alexander

> No that was mainly the Barbey people
you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. greeks regularly referred to macedonians and thracians, who even spoke some manner of greek, as barbaroi.

what book is this user? I have been looking for some cool stuff in latin to read

If you want to know what Greeks thought of Persians read Herodotus.
From what I recall they were about the same complexion and had some different customs but not totally alien. They had respect for them.
I think Romans were probably more interested in Persia as all their soldiers and most of their elite and rich adopted Mithras to the point where Constantine made the form of Christianity kind of similar to it to neutralize the Persian esoteric-brotherhood-mythcult (like Freemasonry of its time) threat.
Babar comes from France, retards.

Ab Urbe condita, book 36

thanks man, any other nice suggestions?

you have it backwards and you know it because it's a commonly known fact white people moved south, from the north. darker people didn't move much at all but mixed with incoming whites to create brown races.

depends on your level and interests I guess, if you haven't read it, Caesar's classic Commentarii of the Gallic war are fairly entertaining and comprehensible with a fairly standard form