The first two volumes of Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization ( I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 and II: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence ) have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish. 1 1991 by Martin Bernal (Author) 95 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback 26.40 10 Used from 11.57 3 New from 135. Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, its three volumes first published in 1987, 1991, and 2006 respectively, is a controversial book by Martin Bernal proposing an alternative hypothesis on the origins of ancient Greece and classical civilisation. Martin Bernal (1937 -2013) was Professor of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. 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. Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Paperback Feb. 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. Black Athena: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence v. 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.

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