Bernal / Moore Black Athena Writes Back

Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8007-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 576 Seiten

This book is Bernal’s response to criticisms to his 1987 book, BLACK ATHENA, which argued for an Afro-Asiatic origin for Greek civilization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernal, Martin

Moore, David Chioni

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Transcriptions and Phonetics

Maps and Charts

Introduction

I Egyptology

1. Can We We Fair? A Reply to John Baines

2. Greece is Not Nubia: A Reply to David O’Connor

II Classics

3. Who is Qualified to Write Greek History? A Reply to Lawrence A. Tritle

4. How Did the Egyptian Way of Death Reach Greece? A Reply to Emily Vermeule

5. Just Smoke and Mirrors? A Reply to Edith Hall

III Linguistics

6. Ausnahmslosigkeit über Alles: A Reply to Jay H. Jasanoff and Alan Nussbaum

IV Historiography

7. Accuracy and/or Coherence? A Reply to Robert Norton, Robert Palter, and Josine Blok

8. Passion and Politics: A Reply to Guy Rogers

9. The British Utilitarians, Imperialism, and the Fall of the Ancient Model

V Science

10. Was There a Greek Scientific Miracle? A Reply to Robert Palter

11. Animadversions on the Origins of Western Science

VI Recent Broadening Scholarship

12. Greek Art Without Egypt, Hamlet Without the Prince: A Review of Sarah Morris’s Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art

13. One or Several Revolutions? A Review of Walter Burkert’s The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age

14. There’s a Mountain in the Way: A Review of Martin West’s The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth

15. Phoenician Politics and Egyptian Justice in Ancient Greece

VII. A Popularizing Effort

16. All Not Quiet on the Wellesley Front: A Review of Not Out of Africa

Conclusion

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Bernal is Professor of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. The first two volumes of Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (“I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785–1985”; and “II: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence”) have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, French, and Swedish and will soon be available in Greek and Japanese.David Chioni Moore is Assistant Professor of International Studies and English at Macalester College.