(P/B) BLACK ATHENA (VOLUME 2)

Παρουσίαση

This volume is the second in a projected four-part series concerned with the competition between two historical models for the origins of Greek civilization. The model current today is the Aryan Model, according to which 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 the model maintained in Classical Greece, held that the native population of Greece had initially been civilized by Egyptian and Phoenician colonists and that more Near Eastern culture had been introduced to Greek by Greeks studying in Egypt and Southwest Asia. Martin Bernal proposes a Revised Ancient Model. According to this, the Indo-European aspects of Greek language and culture should be recognized as fundamental and the considerable non-Indo-European elements should be seen largely as Egyptian and Levantine additions to this basis.
Volume II is concerned with the archaeological and documentary evidence for contacts between Egypt and the Levant on the one hand, and the Aegean on the other, during the Bronze Age from c. 3400 BC to c. 1100 BC. These approaches are supplemented by information from later Greek myths, legends, religious cults, and language. The author concludes that contact between the two regions was far more extensive and influential than is generally believed. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface and Acknowledgements
Transcription and Phonetics
Chronological Tables
INTRODUCTION
Chapter I. CRETE BEFORE THE PALACES, 7000-2100 BC
Chapter II. EGYPT'S INFLUENCE ON BOIOTIA AND THE PELOPONNESE IN THE 3RD MILLENIUM, I
Chapter III. EGYPT'S INFLUENCE ON BOIOTIA AND THE PELOPONNESE IN THE 3RD MILLENIUM, II
Chapter IV. THE OLD PALACE PERIOD IN CRETE AND THE EGYPTIAN MIDDLE KINGDOM, 2100 TO 1730 BC
Chapter V. SESOSTRIS, I
Chapter VI. SESOSTRIS, II
Chapter VII. THE THERA ERUPTION: FROM THE AEGEAN TO CHINA
Chapter VIII. THE HYKSOS
Chapter IX. CRETE, THERA AND THE BIRTH OF MYCENAEAN CULTURE IN THE 18TH AND 17TH CENTURIES BC
Chapter X. EGYPTIAN, MESOPOTAMIAN AND LEVANTINE CONTACTS WITH THE AEGEAN
Chapter XI. EGYPTIAN AND LEVANTINE CONTACTS WITH THE AEGEAN, 1550-1250 BC
Chapter XII. THE HEROIC END TO THE HEROIC AGE
CONCLUSION
Maps and Charts
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index