Black Athena : : The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985 / / Martin Bernal.

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• VerfasserIn: Bernal, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (728 p.)

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 hav...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Transcription and Phonetics
• Maps and Charts
• Chronological Table
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Ancient Model in Antiquity
• Chapter 2. Egyptian Wisdom and Greek Transmission from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance
• Chapter 3. The Triumph of Egypt in the 17th and 18th Centuries
• Chapter 4. Hostilities to Egypt in the 18th Century
• Chapter 5. Romantic Linguistics: The Rise of India and the Fall of Egypt, 1740-1880
• Chapter 6. Hellenomania, I: The Fall of the Ancient Model, 1790-1830
• Chapter 8. The Rise and Fall of the Phoenicians, 1830-85
• Chapter 9. The Final Solution of the Phoenician Problem, 1885-1945
• Chapter 10. The Post-War Situation: The Return to the Broad Aryan Model, 1945-85
• Conclusion
• Appendix. Were the Philistines Greek?
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author