Table of Contents

Preface
Transcriptions and Phonetics
Maps and Charts
Introduction
I Egyptology
1. Can We We Fair? A Reply to John Baines
2. Greece is Not Nubia: A Reply to David O’Connor
II Classics
3. Who is Qualified to Write Greek History? A Reply to Lawrence A. Tritle
4. How Did the Egyptian Way of Death Reach Greece? A Reply to Emily Vermeule
5. Just Smoke and Mirrors? A Reply to Edith Hall
III Linguistics
6. Ausnahmslosigkeit über Alles: A Reply to Jay H. Jasanoff and Alan Nussbaum

IV Historiography

7. Accuracy and/or Coherence? A Reply to Robert Norton, Robert Palter, and Josine Blok
8. Passion and Politics: A Reply to Guy Rogers
9. The British Utilitarians, Imperialism, and the Fall of the Ancient Model
V Science
10. Was There a Greek Scientific Miracle? A Reply to Robert Palter
11. Animadversions on the Origins of Western Science
VI Recent Broadening Scholarship
12. Greek Art Without Egypt, Hamlet Without the Prince: A Review of Sarah Morris’s Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
13. One or Several Revolutions? A Review of Walter Burkert’s The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age
14. There’s a Mountain in the Way: A Review of Martin West’s The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth
15. Phoenician Politics and Egyptian Justice in Ancient Greece
VII. A Popularizing Effort
16. All Not Quiet on the Wellesley Front: A Review of Not Out of Africa
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Martin Bernal is Professor of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. 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, French, and Swedish and will soon be available in Greek and Japanese.

David Chioni Moore is Assistant Professor of International Studies and English at Macalester College.

Reviews

"A fascinating and important debate. As a lay reader I find both the scholarly arguments and the human differences very gripping. Bernal tells the story of the process of academic diffusion very vividly and gives us the kind of background we don't usually discover." - Margaret Drabble "Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind sharp and his analyses often convincing." - Richard Jenkins, The Times Higher Education Supplement "Black Athena must be the most discussed book on the ancient history of the eastern Mediterranean world since the Bible... [It] enjoys such continued attention because it raises important scholarly questions, and because it makes a difficult subject available to a large audience." - Mario Liverani, in Black Athena Revisited "Few books published about the ancient world since World War II have provoked as much interest both inside and outside the discipline of classics as has Black Athena."-Guy MacLean Rogers, in Black Athena Revisited " Fourteen years ago, a tiny London publisher brought out a 600-page academic study of Ancient Greece... within months Black Athena had become--as one historian said--probably the most hotly debated book about the ancient Mediteranean since the Bible. That first volume was soon reissued by Random House as a mass-market paperback. Broadsheet editors pontificated in a dozen countries about Bernal's claims. TV documentaries were made, and symposia convened. A whole cottage industry of attacks and couter-attacks developed around Bernal's work. Black Athena Writes Back, his new collection of replies to his critics, is just the latest instalment in an unending saga."--The Independent, 29 December 2001 " ... I follow with continuing fascination the astonishing academic debate on deep history in Martin Bernal's Black Athena Writes Back--one of the strangest intellectual confrontations of our time."--Margaret Drabble, The Independent, 1 December 2001