The concept of "white" is very new, I think it was invented by the Americans. The Greeks definitely didn't think in those terms, their racial consciousness was

The concept of "white" is very new, I think it was invented by the Americans. The Greeks definitely didn't think in those terms, their racial consciousness was much more fine grained. They wouldn't have seen much affinity with say the barbaric Germanic tribes of the North just because both peoples were Caucasian. For them everybody else, with the exception of the Egyptians, where uncouth brutes or at best upstarts, but this was more of a cultural thing than a racial. "The modern view of race that categorizes other ethnicities as almost an entirely different species" On the contrary, people have never been less prone to dehumanise others than now. In the Ancient world every civilisation relied heavily on slaves, which definitely where considered less than human. Today it's hard even among hard core Nazis to find someone claiming that other races are non-human. Inferior perhaps, but still human.