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Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics
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by Martin Bernal and Martin Bernal
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Cover Type: Paperback with 550 pages
Published by: Duke University Press July 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0822327171
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822327172
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.5 inches
Weighs: 2 pounds
Reader Reviews
Black Athena There are a lot of hysterical reviews on this forum, by people who clearly have not read, let alone understood the book, Black Athena. This book is not about whether the Ancient Egyptians were Black, or whether Greek civilization as it exists today and became known to the Romans was a wholesale copy of Egyptian civilization, as it obviously wasn't. So, what is Black Athena about? This book carefully sets out Martin Bernal's hypothesis, that ancient history can be seen as having been molded into specific narratives, depending on the age when that narrative was created and found it's uses. He defines three different Models or narratives, namely the Ancient Model, The Aryan Model, and his own Revised Ancient Model. He includes some suggested timelines, but basically, the Ancient Model of Greeks like Herodotus, suggested that in 15th century BC, Egyptians and Phoenicians had set up colonies in Greece and the Aegean, creating Greek civilization. The Aryan Model suggests that civilization started with the indigenous creation of a civilization in Greece, and that there were Nordic invasions of Indo-European speakers who mixed in with the non-Indo-European speaking indigenous population Bernal's Revised Ancient Model places the Egyptian and Phoenician invasions in the 21st-19th century, pushes back the introduction of the alphabet to the 17th century (from the 9th century), but maintains that there were Nordic invasions and that the indigenous population spoke a related Indo-Hittite language. All ten chapters in this book are documented to a different period and the changing perspectives and emphasis that is put on a particular origin of history or culture (from the Ancient Model In Antiquity (I), through this model's transmission during the dark ages and the renaissance (II), The Triumph of Egypt in the 17th and 18th Centuries (III) and the beginning Hostilities To Egypt In The 18th Century (IV) (long _before_ Champollion's decypherment of Egyptian in the first quarter of the19th century). These hostilities had no small part of their origins in the existing race based slavery, colonialism and the challenges from within Europe to the transatlantic slave trade as a catalist of the need for a defense of the first two institutions. Chapters V through IX deal with the Romantic Linguistics (V) the discovery of Sanskrit as a related, Indo-European language and the rise of the Indian-Aryan model. Hellenomania (VI) deals with the rise of Greece as a fount of European civilization and ideals, under the German school of von Humboldt and Wolf. Hellenomania 2 (VII) deals with the takeup of this school of thought in England and the growing pre-eminence of the Aryan model in the middle of the 19th century. The Rise And Fall Of The Phoenicians (VIII) deals with the recognitions of the Phoenicians and the influence of antisemitism, as does chapter (IX). The book concludes with The Post-War Situation (X) and discussion of the influences of Gordon and Astour and their reclaming of the legacy of the Phoenicians. In the end we have to ask: is it really so difficult to believe that Ancient Egypt at the height of it's power, it's age of expansion, created small Egyptian colonies in the Peleponnese and around the Aegean (20th century BC), that these colonies helped to transfer some of it's culture and civilization, and that the Greeks had myths that said so? No linguist today disputes the Phoenician origin of the Greek alphabet. A small step pyramid has been found in Thebes, Greece. Most ancient Greek philosophers paid homage to Ancient Egypt and studied there, in the 5th century. A classic book and a must read for anyone interested in the topic, especially of Aegean relations and the history of history itself.
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