Black Athena revisited / edited by Mary R. Lefkowitz & Guy MacLean Rogers.

Other author Lefkowitz, Mary R., 1935-
Other author Rogers, Guy MacLean.
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1996.
Descriptionxxi, 522 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Greece--Civilization. --Egyptian influences.
Greece--Civilization. --Phoenician influences.
Greece--Civilization. --To 146 B.C.

Contents Aims and methods of "Black Athena" / John Baines -- Egypt and Greece : the bronze age evidence / David O'Conner -- "Black Athena" : an Egyptological review / Frank J. Yurco -- Ancient Egyptians and the issue of race / Kathryn A. Bard -- Bernal's "blacks" and the afrocentrists / Frank M. Snowden, Jr. -- Clines and clusters versus "race" : a test in ancient Egypt and the case of a death on the Nile / C. Loring Brace... [et al.] -- Legacy of "Black Athena" / Sarah P. Morris --
Contents Word games : the linguistic evidence in "Black Athena" / Jay H. Jasanoff and Alan Nussbaum -- "Black Athena", afrocentrism, and the history of science / Robert Palter -- World turned upside down / Emily T. Vermeule -- Did Egypt shape the glory that was Greece? / John E. Coleman -- "Black Athena" : vision or dream of Greek origins? / Lawrence A. Tritle -- When is a myth not a myth? : Bernal's "ancient model" / Edith Hall --
Contents Eighteenth-century historiography in "Black Athena" / Robert Palter -- Tyranny of Germany over Greece? : Bernal, Herder, and the German appropriation of Greece / Robert E. Norton -- Bernal and the nineteenth century / Richard Jenkyns -- Bathwater and the baby / Mario Liverani -- Multiculturalism and the foundations of western civilization / Guy MacLean Rogers .
Local noteLittle-300411--305131005967/
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 455-504) and index.
LCCN 95008903
ISBN0807822469 (alk. paper)
ISBN0807845558 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks DF78 .B54 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold