| Description |
xxi, 522 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Aims and methods of "Black Athena" / John Baines -- Egypt and Greece : the bronze age evidence / David O'Conner -- "Black Athena" : an Egyptological review / Frank J. Yurco -- Ancient Egyptians and the issue of race / Kathryn A. Bard -- Bernal's "blacks" and the afrocentrists / Frank M. Snowden, Jr. -- Clines and clusters versus "race" : a test in ancient Egypt and the case of a death on the Nile / C. Loring Brace [and others] -- Legacy of "Black Athena" / Sarah P. Morris |
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Eighteenth-century historiography in "Black Athena" / Robert Palter -- Tyranny of Germany over Greece? : Bernal, Herder, and the German appropriation of Greece / Robert E. Norton -- Bernal and the nineteenth century / Richard Jenkyns -- Bathwater and the baby / Mario Liverani -- Multiculturalism and the foundations of western civilization / Guy MacLean Rogers |
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Word games : the linguistic evidence in "Black Athena" / Jay H. Jasanoff and Alan Nussbaum -- "Black Athena", afrocentrism, and the history of science / Robert Palter -- World turned upside down / Emily T. Vermeule -- Did Egypt shape the glory that was Greece? / John E. Coleman -- "Black Athena" : vision or dream of Greek origins? / Lawrence A. Tritle -- When is a myth not a myth? : Bernal's "ancient model" / Edith Hall |
| Summary |
Topics covered include race and physical anthropology; the question of an Egyptian invasion of Greece; the origins of Greek language, philosophy, and science; and racism and anti-Semitism in classical scholarship. In the conclusion to the volume, the editors propose an entirely new scholarly framework for understanding the relationship between the cultures of the ancient Near East and Greece and the origins of Western civilization |
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In this collection of twenty essays, leading scholars in a broad range of disciplines confront the claims made by Martin Bernal in Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. In that work, Bernal proposed a radical reinterpretation of the roots of classical civilization, contending that ancient Greek culture derived from Egypt and Phoenicia and that European scholars have been biased against the notion of Egyptian and Phoenician influence on Western civilization. The contributors to this volume argue that Bernal's claims are exaggerated and in many cases unjustified |
| Analysis |
Greece - Civilization - Egyptian influences |
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Greece - Civilization - Phoenician influences |
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Greece - Civilization - To 146 B.C |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-504) and index |
| Subject |
Bernal, Martin. Black Athena
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| SUBJECT |
880-01 Greece -- Civilization -- Egyptian influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003571
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880-01 Ελλάδα -- Πολιτισμός -- Μέχρι το 146 π.Χ. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003571
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Greece -- Civilization -- Egyptian influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003571
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Greece -- Civilization -- Phoenician influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003572
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Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
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| Author |
Lefkowitz, Mary R., 1935-
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Rogers, Guy MacLean.
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| LC no. |
95008903 |
| ISBN |
0807822469 |
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0807845558 |
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9780807822463 |
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9780807845554 |
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