Black Athena : : The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilation Volume III: The Linguistic Evidence /

Black Athena : : The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilation Volume III: The Linguistic Evidence / / Martin Bernal.

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...

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Bernal, Martin,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1066 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Transcriptions and Phonetics
  • Maps and Charts
  • Chronological Tables
  • Introduction
  • 1 Historical Linguistics and the Image of Ancient Greek
  • 2 The “Nostratic” and “Euroasiatic” Hyper-and Super-Families
  • 3 Afroasiatic, Egyptian and Semitic
  • 4 The Origins of Indo-Hittite and Indo-European and Their Contacts with Other Languages
  • 5 The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 1, Phonology
  • 6 The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 2, Morphological and Syntactical Developments
  • 7 The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 3, Lexicon
  • 8 Phonetic Developments in Egyptian, West Semitic and Greek over the Last Three Millennia BCE, as Reflected in Lexical Borrowings
  • 9 Greek Borrowings from Egyptian Prefixes, Including the Definite Articles
  • 10 Major Egyptian Terms in Greek: Part 1
  • 11 Major Egyptian Terms in Greek: Part 2
  • 12 Sixteen Minor Roots
  • 13 Semitic Sibilants
  • 14 More Semitic Loans into Greek
  • 15 Some Egyptian and Semitic Semantic Clusters in Greek
  • 16 Semantic Clusters: Warfare, Hunting and Shipping
  • 17 Semantic Clusters: Society, Politics, Law and Abstraction
  • 18 Religious Terminology
  • 19 Divine Names: Gods, Mythical Creatures, Heroes
  • 20 Geographical Features and Place-Names
  • 21 Sparta
  • 22 Athena and Athens
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Greek Words and Names with Proposed Afroasiatic Etymologies
  • Letter Correspondences
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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