![]() ![]() Hence his crusade, in Black Athena, "to lessen European cultural arrogance" by radically revising ancient history. ![]() ![]() That query brought him up against what he regards as the systematic anti-Semitic and racist bias of 18thand 19th-century historiography. As Bernal tells it, Black Athena began in a search for his own ethnic and intellectual roots. II, 1991) has captured the imagination of the public, it has earned the author the enmity of many of his fellow scholars.īernal is the half-Jewish grandson of the eminent Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardner, and a Cornell University political scientist whose specialty is China. According to the Italian historian Mario Liverani, "Black Athena must be the most discussed book on the ancient history of the Mediterranean world since the Bible." But if Martin Bernal’s Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (Vol. ![]()
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