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.
Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures.
But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century--chiefly for racist reasons.
The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conque.
Rutgers University Press Classics Black athena (3 vol set): the afroasiatic roots of classical civilization, paperback/martin bernal
