Black Athena Writes Back : Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics

by: Bernal, M. Moore, D.Ch.

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 Black Athena Writes Back
Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics
Martin Bernal
Edited by: David Chioni Moore

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

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Transcriptions and Phonetics

Maps and Charts

Introduction

I EGYPTOLOGY
1. Can We Be 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
Introduction

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

Black Athena Writes Back : Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics

by: Bernal, M. Moore, D.Ch.

• ISBN-13: 9780822327172 / 978-0-8223-2717-2
• ISBN-03: 0822327171 / 0-8223-2717-1
• Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 2001

Price: 46,37 EURO

1 copy in stock