I stumbled across a table of early Roman Emperors with their hair color, eye color etc. listed on a white supremacist forum, according to which most of them apparently had blonde or light hair as well as blue/grey eyes. I also read that Romans prized features such as fair skin, light eyes as well as light hair (based on the number of Roman Gods or heroes described as having such features) and that there was a disproportionate number of Patricians possessing such features.
Of course, they draw the sort of conclusion where "Aryans" have always been considered Ubermenschen or whatever, but is the premise even true? If so, it does surprise me considering the occurence of such features in the Mediterranean now and back then. Are there any parallels between Ancient Rome and Greece regarding this?
TL;DR: No. fuck no. Absolutely not. Any implication otherwise is inaccurate to the point of incredible stupidity.
Long story: the Romans, unsurprisingly, had predominantly Mediterranean/Italic features, and limited interactions with the Nordic peoples until the later Imperial and Byzantine eras. In the Early Republican era, Romans almost exclusively interacted with Greek, Italian, and African people, with some interactions with the Italicized Cisalpine Gauls, and as the Republic grew, they interacted with every group from Numidians, to Persians, to Nordic peoples. However, there is little if any evidence to show that the people of Northern Europe - even the Britons - were ever prevalent enough for their stereotypical traits to become predominant in any significant Roman group (outside of the Nordic Varangians and the odd Northern European mercenary group that the Byzantines loved to use). Nor are there, to my knowledge, any examples of a Patrician having any hair/eye color other than brown and/or black (and, in fact, most descriptions don’t even mention such things), with ‘fair’ hair simply referring to well kept, slightly lighter brown hair, and ‘fair’ skin referring to smooth, tan-less, and uncalloused skin typical among the upper classes of any society of the time, regardless of skin color. It is worth noting that the Patrician class was a VERY small group that included the descendants of the founding families of Rome until Augustus began the practice of elevating significant people to it. Patricians are not the same thing as nobles, but again, what we would consider nobles were predominantly drawn from nearly every major ethnic group the Republic/Empire came to dominate, which never included any Nordic people. Depictions of famous and/or Noble Romans as more Nordic generally stem from the post-Renaissance era, or (perhaps more hilariously) stem from an ex post facto redefinition of Nordic features basing them on Renaissance or post renaissance paintings and artworks to justify racist beliefs in the 20th century.