Academic essays challenging Martin Bernal’s Black Athena thesis on Afroasiatic roots of classical Greek civilization and Western origins.
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Academic essays challenging Martin Bernal’s Black Athena thesis on Afroasiatic roots of classical Greek civilization and Western origins.
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In this collection of twenty essays, leading scholars in a broad range of disciplines confront the claims made by Martin Bernal in Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. In that work, Bernal proposed a radical reinterpretation of the roots of classical civilization, contending that ancient Greek culture derived from Egypt and Phoenicia and that European scholars have been biased against the notion of Egyptian and Phoenician influence on Western civilization.
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Brief historical discussion of ancient invasions and conflicts
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References to ancient Greek and Egyptian religion and mythology
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Central critique of Afrocentrism, race, and bias in classical scholarship
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Discusses historical racism and anti-Semitism in classical scholarship
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