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Informationen zum Autor Martin Bernal is Professor of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. The first two volumes of Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (“I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785–1985”; and “II: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence”) have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, French, and Swedish and will soon be available in Greek and Japanese.David Chioni Moore is Assistant Professor of International Studies and English at Macalester College. Klappentext "[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 Revisite"dBernal's response to criticisms to his 1987 book, 'BLACK ATHENA', which argued for an Afro-Asiatic origin for Greek civilisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 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...
