Black Athena revisited / edited by Mary R. Lefkowitz & Guy MacLean Rogers.
Contributor(s): Lefkowitz, Mary R | Rogers, Guy MacLean
Material type: TextPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: xxi, 522 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0807822469 (alk. paper); 0807845558 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Greece -- Civilization -- Egyptian influences | Greece -- Civilization -- Phoenician influences | Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.CDDC classification: 938 LOC classification: DF78 | .B54 1996Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-504) and index.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | 1 West | DF78 .B54 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182902002266 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-504) and index.
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 --
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 --
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 .