Description: Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century-chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers-Aryans-from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this "Aryan model." They did not see their institutions as original, but as derived from the East and from Egypt in particular. In an unprecedented tour de force, Bernal links a wide range of areas and disciplines-drama, poetry, myth, theological controversy, esoteric religion, philosophy, biography, language, historical narrative, and the emergence of "modern scholarship."
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EAN: 9781978804265
UPC: 9781978804265
ISBN: 9781978804265
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Book Title: Black Athena : The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume I: the Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985
Number of Pages: 669 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 1.7 in
Topic: Comparative Literature, Historiography, Ancient / General, Ancient / Greece, Black Studies (Global), Ancient / Egypt
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 24 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Martin Bernal
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
