"Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind is sharp, and his analyses convince." his account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find." "A work which has much to offer the lay reader, and its multi-disciplinary sweep is refreshing: it is an important contribution to historiography and the sociology of knowledge, written with elegance, wit, and self-awareness. a retrospect of ingenious and often sardonic erudition." a critical inquiry into a large part of the European imagination. The story told by Bernal, with many fascinating twists and turns and quite a few entertaining digressions, is. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology - perhaps one should say politics - of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic proficiency. Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. restore the credibility of what he calls the Ancient Model of the beginnings of Greek civilizations. "In a spectacular undertaking, Martin Bernal sets out to. Still a must read for all those in search of truth." " Black Athena is a powerfully written and brilliantly researched book that relentlessly unveils the historical and cultural African origins of Western civilization. This is a complete set of all three volumes, shrink-wrapped. In an unprecedented tour de force, Bernal links a wide range of areas and disciplines-drama, poetry, myth, theological controversy, esoteric religion, philosophy, biography, language, historical narrative, and the emergence of “modern scholarship.” But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this “Aryan model.” They did not see their institutions as original, but as derived from the East and from Egypt in particular. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers-Aryans-from the North. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century-chiefly for racist reasons.
Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures.
What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question.
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