Black athena

Explores the debate around Prof. Martin Bernal's book on the African origins of Greek culture, Black Athena. Leading classicists and Egyptologists discuss Bernal's indictment that 19th century scholars systematically denied the connections between Greece and the non-European cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean.

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"Explores the debate around Prof. Martin Bernal's book on the African origins of Greek culture, Black Athena. Leading classicists and Egyptologists discuss Bernal's indictment that 19th century scholars systematically denied the connections between Greece and the non-European cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean."@en
"Explores the debate around Prof. Martin Bernal's book on the African origins of Greek culture, Black Athena. Leading classicists and Egyptologists discuss Bernal's indictment that 19th century scholars systematically denied the connections between Greece and the non-European cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean."
"Explores the heated debate around Professor Martin Barnal's book on the African origins of Greek culture "Black Athena." Provides a balanced introduction to the controversies surrounding "multiculturalism" and "political correctness.""@en
"The program examines the highly controversial views presented by Professor Martin Bernal in his book Black Athena. He claims that during the last two centuries scholars have been re-writing classical history to show that the cradle of Western civilization, ancient Greece, owes its origin to a white European ancestry and this re-writing runs in direct contradiction to the view of the ancient Greeks that their past traced descent from dark-skinned Egyptians and Phoenicians."@en
"Explores the heated debate around Martin Bernal's iconoclastic book on the African origins of Greek culture, Black Athena."
"Professor Martin Bernal challenges the assumption that Ancient Greece was the cradle of Western civilisation and that people were white, not semitic or African. He places the ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians at the origins of Western culture."
"Reviews evidence that the culture of ancient Greece had its origins in Africa and the East and that the West should recognize what it owes to Black and Eastern cultures."@en
"Reviews evidence that the culture of ancient Greece had its origins in Africa and the East and that the West should recognize what it owes to Black and Eastern cultures."
"Explores the debate around Prof. Martin Bernal's book on the African origins of Greek culture, Black athena : the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization. Leading classicists and Egyptologists discuss Bernal's indictment that 19th century scholars systematically denied the connections between Greece and the non-European cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean. Reviews evidence that the culture of ancient Greece had its origins in Africa and the East and that the West should recognize what it owes to Black and Eastern cultures."