Black Athena Revisited (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary R. Lefkowitz
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Racism, Political science, Egypt or Egyptians, Greek or Roman times, Archaeology or archaeologists, Historiography
The publication of the first volume of Martin Bernal’s Black Athena in 1987 shook the very foundations of the classical world to its historical and archaeological underpinnings. In both this book and in a second volume, published in 1991, Bernal, a professor of political science and an expert on China, uses a wide range of arguments to call into question not only generally accepted views on the origins of Greek civilization but also the very methodological assumptions of the discipline. Bernal’s position, in brief, is that ancient Greece was colonized in the second millennium...
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