Martin Bernal

Black Athena Writes Back

Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics
Herausgeber: Moore, David Chioni

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is Bernal's response to criticisms to his 1987 book, BLACK ATHENA, which argued for an Afro-Asiatic origin for Greek civilization.

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"[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"d

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 158mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 826g
• ISBN-13: 9780822327172
• ISBN-10: 0822327171
• Artikelnr.: 21785461

Autorenporträt

Martin Bernal

Inhaltsangabe

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