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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewImportanttttt * Bryn Mawr Classical Review, April 2009 *
Since the 1990s consideration of Egyptian etymologies has opened up in the West, and such younger classicists as Garth Alford, Erwin Cook, and R. Drew Griffith have begun to study striking similarities between Egyptian and Homeric imagery and vocabulary. -- Martin Bernal, author of Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume III The Linguistic Evidence
Since the 1990s consideration of Egyptian etymologies has opened up in the West, and such younger classicists as Garth Alford, Erwin Cook, and R. Drew Griffith have begun to study striking similarities between Egyptian and Homeric imagery and vocabulary. -- Martin Bernal, author of
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume III The Linguistic Evidence
Important * Bryn Mawr Classical Review, April 2009 *
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Brought Forth from the Land of Egypt Chapter 2 Rowing to Elysium: Menelaus' Afterlife and Egyptian Religion Chapter 3 The Voice of the Dead In the Odyssey and Egyptian Funerary Texts Chapter 4 The Origin of Memnon Chapter 5 Local Colour: The Egyptian Basis for some Homeric Descriptions Chapter 6 Mechanism of Contact Chapter 7 The Egyptian Background to the Eleusinian Mysteries Chapter 8 Near Death Experience and the Eleusinian Mysteries: Resuscitation as Psychotherapy Chapter 9 Afterward
