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Book SynopsisBernal's response to criticisms to his 1987 book, 'BLACK ATHENA', which argued for an Afro-Asiatic origin for Greek civilisation.
Trade Review“
Black Athena must be the most discussed book on the ancient history of the eastern Mediterranean world since the Bible. . . . [It] enjoys such continued attention because it raises important scholarly questions, and because it makes a difficult subject available to a large audience.”—Mario Liverani, in
Black Athena Revisited“A fascinating and important debate. As a lay reader I find both the scholarly arguments and the human differences very gripping. Bernal tells the story of the process of academic diffusion very vividly and gives us the kind of background we don't usually discover.”—Margaret Drabble
“[F]ew books published about the ancient world since World War II have provoked as much interest both inside and outside the discipline of classics as has
Black Athena.”—Guy MacLean Rogers, in
Black Athena Revisited
Table of ContentsPreface
Transcriptions and Phonetics
Maps and Charts
Introduction
I Egyptology
1. Can We We Fair? A Reply to John Baines
2. Greece is Not Nubia: A Reply to David O’Connor
II Classics
3. Who is Qualified to Write Greek History? A Reply to Lawrence A. Tritle
4. How Did the Egyptian Way of Death Reach Greece? A Reply to Emily Vermeule
5. Just Smoke and Mirrors? A Reply to Edith Hall
III Linguistics
6.
Ausnahmslosigkeit über Alles: A Reply to Jay H. Jasanoff and Alan Nussbaum
IV Historiography
7. Accuracy and/or Coherence? A Reply to Robert Norton, Robert Palter, and Josine Blok
8. Passion and Politics: A Reply to Guy Rogers
9. The British Utilitarians, Imperialism, and the Fall of the Ancient Model
V Science
10. Was There a Greek Scientific Miracle? A Reply to Robert Palter
11. Animadversions on the Origins of Western Science
VI Recent Broadening Scholarship
12. Greek Art Without Egypt,
Hamlet Without the Prince: A Review of Sarah Morris’s
Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art 13. One or Several Revolutions? A Review of Walter Burkert’s
The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age 14. There’s a Mountain in the Way: A Review of Martin West’s
The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth 15. Phoenician Politics and Egyptian Justice in Ancient Greece
VII. A Popularizing Effort
16. All Not Quiet on the Wellesley Front: A Review of
Not Out of Africa Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
