TY  - GEN
T1  - Black Athena : the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization.
A1  - Bernal, Martin
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1142813897
AB  - 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 have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century--chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers--Aryans--from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this "Aryan model." They did not see their institutions as original, but as derived from the East and from Egypt in particular. In an unprecedented tour de force, Bernal links a wide range of areas and disciplines--drama, poetry, myth, theological controversy, esoteric religion, philosophy, biography, language, historical narrative, and the emergence of "modern scholarship."
OP  - 625
CN  - DF78 .B47 2020
SN  - 9781978807150
SN  - 1978807155
SN  - 9781978807136
SN  - 1978807139
SN  - 9781978804265
SN  - 9781978807129
KW  - Greece : Civilization : Egyptian influences.
KW  - Greece : Civilization : Phoenician influences.
KW  - Greece : Civilization : To 146 B.C.
KW  - Grèce : Civilisation : Influence phénicienne.
KW  - Grèce : Civilisation : Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Civilization : Egyptian influences
KW  - Civilization : Phoenician influences
KW  - Greece
KW  - To 146 B.C.
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -