Classify the actors in the movie "Troy"

[Agrippa]

4. Totally out of place. Brunn/Nordid. Looks American.

I thought about that again and think, though robust Nordid and classical Nordids were present, you are probably right.
Because even people of the same race look different in different regions oftentimes, and he ha something about his face which looks typically North Western, not even Nordids from Southern Germany look too often like him.
Typologically a similar mixture (Nordid-robust Nordid-alternatively Cromagnid admixture), though in this purity with a low probability, could have been present, but this typical facial features and expression look out of place.

[Awar]

I thought they did a pretty good job casting the movie, especially Brad Pitt as Achilles. The Achaeans were Nordic invaders after all.

Well, if by 'Nordic' you consider people from the central parts of Balkans peninsula, then you're right.

If by 'Nordic' you consider Scandinavians or Central Europeans, then,
you're wrong.

[Huzar]

Well, if by 'Nordic' you consider people from the central parts of Balkans peninsula, then you're right.

If by 'Nordic' you consider Scandinavians or Central Europeans, then,
you're wrong.

Interesting precisation

[Awar]

Interesting precisation

By looking at the specific haplogroups of the male populations of
Europe, it's clear that no such invasions took place.

If there were any 'Nordics' who conquered the area of today's Greece, they would've left some of their DNA, but, in reality, nothing like that is present.
By far, most of the DNA of modern Greeks is of local Balkanoid origin ( within the last 8000 years at least ), except for the probable traces of the more recent Slavic migrations.

[morfrain_encilgar]

Both archaic robust Nordids, typical Nordids and Cromagnids were present in South-Eastern Europe of that time.
The elements would have been there, but the purity probably not.

The settled Greeks are of eastern Mediterranean origin, while there were also nomadic pastoralists who preserved the indigenous type, just as today. They survive as a seperate ethnic group around the Pindos massif, and elsewhere in south-eastern Europe, with their own distinctive UP type which is known for its strong zygomata. The Dorian expansion at the end of the LBA was when these pastoralists overwhelmed and conquered their agriculturalist neighbours as an aristocratic caste. (Therefore the Ionians clamed to be "earth-born" to distance themselves from the Dorians.)

[Awar]

[Vanir]

So basically something close to the Anglo-Saxon type. How realistic is this for an Achean/Dorian?!

That bloke's Australian born and bred.
They breed 'em big in QLD...must be all the hormone saturated beef or something.

[morfrain_encilgar]

Is this map supposed to mean that the Urnfeld Culture population was racially ancestral to the Dorian pastoralists, or is it supposed to be relevant for a linguistic or other reason?

If youre implying the racial origin of the Dorians was further north, then Poulianos argues that this type is the most conservative example of Caucasoids.

[RedJack]

Doesn't that map say the same thing I said, Awar?

[Edwin]

1. Brad Pitt - an obvious Faelid/Borreby
2. Who? - is he Balkanoid - What is this type anyway?
3. Brian Cox - this Scotsman is probably UP/Atlantid
4. The Jotun - a gracilized Brünn on steroids
5. Eric Bana - Dinarid/Mongoloid? Who knows?
6. Brendon Gleeson - this redhaired Northern Irishman is pure UP!
7. Sean Bean - an Anglo-Saxon with Neadertaloid nose and brows
8. Orlando Bloom - Anglo-Saxon/Atlantid - duh!