{"product_id":"black-athena-writes-back-9780822327172","title":"Black Athena Writes Back","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBernal's response to criticisms to his 1987 book, 'BLACK ATHENA', which argued for an Afro-Asiatic origin for Greek civilisation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBlack Athena\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBlack Athena Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e“[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 \u003ci\u003eBlack Athena.\u003c\/i\u003e”—Guy MacLean Rogers, in \u003ci\u003eBlack Athena Revisite\u003c\/i\u003ed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e Transcriptions and Phonetics \u003cbr\u003e Maps and Charts \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e I Egyptology \u003cbr\u003e 1. Can We We Fair? A Reply to John Baines \u003cbr\u003e 2. Greece is Not Nubia: A Reply to David O’Connor \u003cbr\u003e II Classics \u003cbr\u003e 3. Who is Qualified to Write Greek History? A Reply to Lawrence A. Tritle \u003cbr\u003e 4. How Did the Egyptian Way of Death Reach Greece? A Reply to Emily Vermeule \u003cbr\u003e 5. Just Smoke and Mirrors? A Reply to Edith Hall \u003cbr\u003e III Linguistics \u003cbr\u003e 6. \u003ci\u003eAusnahmslosigkeit über Alles: \u003c\/i\u003eA Reply to Jay H. Jasanoff and Alan Nussbaum\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e IV Historiography\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 7. Accuracy and\/or Coherence? A Reply to Robert Norton, Robert Palter, and Josine Blok \u003cbr\u003e 8. Passion and Politics: A Reply to Guy Rogers \u003cbr\u003e 9. The British Utilitarians, Imperialism, and the Fall of the Ancient Model \u003cbr\u003e V Science \u003cbr\u003e 10. Was There a Greek Scientific Miracle? A Reply to Robert Palter \u003cbr\u003e 11. Animadversions on the Origins of Western Science \u003cbr\u003e VI Recent Broadening Scholarship \u003cbr\u003e 12. Greek Art Without Egypt, \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e Without the Prince: A Review of Sarah Morris’s \u003ci\u003eDaidalos and the Origins of Greek Art\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 13. One or Several Revolutions? A Review of Walter Burkert’s \u003ci\u003eThe Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 14. There’s a Mountain in the Way: A Review of Martin West’s \u003ci\u003eThe East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 15. Phoenician Politics and Egyptian Justice in Ancient Greece \u003cbr\u003e VII. A Popularizing Effort \u003cbr\u003e 16. All Not Quiet on the Wellesley Front: A Review of \u003ci\u003eNot Out of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Glossary \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406027759959,"sku":"9780822327172","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822327172.jpg?v=1730494293","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-athena-writes-back-9780822327172","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}