Re: Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization,

Greek and the IE languages around the Mediterranean Sea are in
either case strongly influences by the afro-asiatic languages in
their structure.



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> Pub. Date: August 2006
> Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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> ABOUT THE BOOK
> Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization,

Volume

> III: The Linguistic Evidence
> FROM THE PUBLISHER
> 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.
>
> 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. 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. Moving beyond these prevailing models, Bernal proposes a

Revised

> Ancient Model, which suggests that classical civilization in fact

had

> deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures.
>
> This long-awaited third and final volume of the series is concerned
> with the linguistic evidence that contradicts the Aryan Model of
> ancient Greece. Bernal shows how nearly 40 percent of the Greek
> vocabulary has been plausibly derived from two Afroasiatic
> languages—Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic. He also reveals how

these

> derivations are not limited to matters of trade, but extended to

the

> sophisticatedlanguage of politics, religion, and philosophy. This
> evidence, according to Bernal, confirms the fact that in Greece an
> Indo-European people was culturally dominated by speakers of

Ancient

> Egyptian and West Semitic.
>
> Provocative, passionate, and colossal in scope, this volume caps a
> thoughtful rewriting of history that has been stirring academic and
> political controversy since the publication of the first volume.
>