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Black Athena : The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985

by: Bernal, M.

Price: 39,00 EURO

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Category: Minoan / Mycenaean / Aegean / Mediterranean Bronze Age
Code: 8737
ISBN-13: 9780813512778 / 978-0-8135-1277-8
ISBN-10: 0813512778 / 0-8135-1277-8
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication Date: 1987
Publication Place: New Jersey
Binding: Paper
Pages: 575
Book Condition: As New

Black Athena : the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization : The fabrication of ancient Greece, 1785-1985

Author:Martin Bernal

 

 

Preface and Acknowledgements p. xii
Transcription and Phonetics p. xix
Maps and Charts p. xxiii
Chronological Table p. xxxi
Introduction p. 1
Background p. 11
Proposed historical outline p. 17
Black Athena, Volume 1: a summary of the argument p. 22
Greece European or Levantine? The Egyptian and West Semitic Components
of Greek Civilization / a summary of Volume 2
p. 38
Solving the Riddle of the Sphinx and Other Studies in Egypto-Greek
Mytholog / a summary of Volume 3
p. 63
The Ancient Model in Antiquity p. 75
Pelasgians p. 75
Ionians p. 83
Colonization p. 84
The colonizations in Greek tragedy p. 88
Herodotos p. 98
Thucydides p. 101
Isokrates and Plato p. 103
Aristotle p. 108
Theories of colonization and later borrowing in the Hellenistic world p. 109
Plutarch's attack on Herodotos p. 112
The triumph of Egyptian religion p. 114
Alexander son of Ammon p. 115
Egyptian Wisdom and Greek Transmission from the Dark Ages to the
Renaissance
p. 121
The murder of Hypatia p. 121
The collapse of Egypto-Pagan religion p. 122
Christianity, stars and fish p. 124
The relics of Egyptian religion: Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism and Gnosticism p. 130
Hermeticism--Greek, Iranian, Chaldaean or Egyptian? p. 134
Hermeticism and Neo-Platonism under early Christianity, Judaism and Islam p. 145
Hermeticism in Byzantium and Christian Western Europe p. 150
Egypt in the Renaissance p. 151
Copernicus and Hermeticism p. 155
Hermeticism and Egypt in the 16th century p. 156
The Triumph of Egypt in the 17th and 18th Centuries p. 161
Hermeticism in the 17th century p. 162
Rosicrucianism: Ancient Egypt in Protestant countries p. 165
Ancient Egypt in the 18th century p. 169
The 18th century: China and the Physiocrats p. 172
The 18th century: England, Egypt and the Freemasons p. 173
France, Egypt and 'progress': the quarrel between Ancients and Moderns p. 177
Mythology as allegory for Egyptian science p. 181
The Expedition to Egypt p. 183
Hostilities to Egypt in the 18th Century p. 189
Christian reaction p. 190
The 'triangle': Christianity and Greece against Egypt p. 192
The alliance between Greece and Christianity p. 195
'Progress' against Egypt p. 196
Europe as the 'progressive' continent p. 198
'Progress' p. 198
Racism p. 201
Romanticism p. 204
Ossian and Homer p. 206
Romantic Hellenism p. 209
Winckelmann and Neo-Hellenism in Germany p. 212
Gottingen p. 215
Romantic Linguistics
The rise of India and the fall of Egypt, 1740-1880 p. 224
The birth of Indo-European p. 226
The love affair with Sanskrit p. 227
Schlegelian Romantic linguistics p. 230
The Oriental Renaissance p. 233
The fall of China p. 237
Racism in the early 19th century p. 239
What colour were the Ancient Egyptians? p. 240
The national renaissance of modern Egypt p. 246
Dupuis, Jomard and Champollion p. 250
Egyptian monotheism or Egyptian polytheism p. 257
Popular perceptions of Ancient Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries p. 266
Elliot Smith and 'diffusionism' p. 270
Jomard and the Mystery of the Pyramids p. 272
Hellenomania, 1
The fall of the Ancient Model, 1790-1830 p. 281
Friedrich August Wolf and Wilhelm von Humboldt p. 283
Humboldt's educational reforms p. 285
The Philhellenes p. 289
Dirty Greeks and the Dorians p. 292
Transitional figures, 1: Hegel and Marx p. 294
Transitional figures, 2: Heeren p. 297
Transitional figures, 3: Barthold Niebuhr p. 297
Petit-Radel and the first attack on the Ancient Model p. 307
Karl Otfried Muller and the overthrow of the Ancient Model p. 308
Hellenomania, 2
Transmission of the new scholarship to England and the rise of the Aryan
Model, 1830-60
p. 317
The German model and educational reform in England p. 318
George Grote p. 326
Aryans and Hellenes p. 330
The Rise and Fall of the Phoenicians, 1830-85 p. 337
Phoenicians and anti-Semitism p. 338
What race were the Semites? p. 340
The linguistic and geographical inferiorities of the Semites p. 344
The Arnolds p. 347
Phoenicians and English, 1: the English view p. 350
Phoenicians and English, 2: the French view p. 352
Salammbo p. 355
Moloch p. 358
The Phoenicians in Greece: 1820-80 p. 359
Gobineau's image of Greece p. 360
Schliemann and the discovery of the 'Mycenaeans' p. 362
Babylon p. 364
The Final Solution of the Phoenician Problem, 1885-1945 p. 367
The Greek Renaissance p. 368
Salomon Reinach p. 370
Julius Beloch p. 373
Victor Berard p. 377
Akhenaton and the Egyptian Renaissance p. 383
Arthur Evans and the 'Minoans' p. 385
The peak of anti-Semitism, 1920-39 p. 387
20th-century Aryanism p. 388
Taming the alphabet: the final assault on the Phoenicians p. 393
The Post-War Situation
The return to the Broad Aryan Model, 1945-85 p. 400
The post-war situation p. 402
Developments in Classics, 1945-65 p. 404
The model of autochthonous origin p. 407
East Mediterranean contacts p. 408
Mythology p. 412
Language p. 413
Ugarit p. 414
Scholarship and the rise of Israel p. 415
Cyrus Gordon p. 416
Astour and Hellenosemitica p. 419
Astour's successor?--J. C. Billigmeier p. 422
An attempt at compromise: Ruth Edwards p. 423
The return of the Iron Age Phoenicians p. 426
Naveh and the transmission of the alphabet p. 427
The return of the Egyptians? p. 433
The Revised Ancient Model p. 437
Conclusion p. 439
Were the Philistines Greek? p. 445
Notes p. 451
Glossary p. 509
Bibliography p. 523
Index p. 565

 
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Black Athena : The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985

by: Bernal, M.

  • ISBN-13: 9780813512778 / 978-0-8135-1277-8
  • ISBN-03: 0813512778 / 0-8135-1277-8
  • Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, 1987

Price: 39,00 EURO

1 copy in stock