Bernal replied to many of the criticisms of his 3-volume series in Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics. It remains a soaring accomplishment of classical erudition of the Afroasiatic foundation of Greek history. The other books in the ‘Black Athena’ series are Black Athena: Volume 1 and Black Athena: Volume 2. The Aryan Model, which is current today, claims that Greek culture arose as the result of the conquest from the north by Indo-European speakers, or "Aryans," of the native "pre-Hellenes." The Ancient Model, which was maintained in Classical Greece, held that the native population of Greece had initially been civilized by Egyptian and Phoenician colonists and that additional Near Eastern culture had been introduced to Greece by Greeks studying in Egypt and Southwest Asia. Bernal was born and grew up in Hampstead, London, the son of the physicist John Desmond Bernal and artists patron Margaret Gardiner. Martin Bernal’s Black Athena is nothing short of a monumental achievement in scholarship that re-oriented and transformed serious study of ancient civilizations. In Black Athena, an audacious three-volume series that strikes at the heart of today's most heated culture wars, Martin Bernal challenges Eurocentric attitudes by calling into question two of the longest-established explanations for the origins of classical civilization. Synopsis: Could Greek philosophy be rooted in Egyptian thought? Is it possible that the Pythagorean theory was conceived on the shores of the Nile and the Euphrates rather than in ancient Greece? Could it be that Western civilization was born on the so-called Dark Continent? For almost two centuries, Western scholars have given little credence to the possibility of such scenarios.
0 kommentar(er)
