Martin Gardiner Bernal (1937–2013)
Author of Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985
About the Author
Image credit: Public-Conversations
Series
Works by Martin Gardiner Bernal
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 (1987) 377 copies
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization: Vol. 2: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence (1991) 159 copies
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization: Vol. 3: The Linguistic Evidence (2006) 51 copies
Cadmean Letters: The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean and Further West Before 1400 B.C. (1990) 13 copies
Black Athena (3 vol set): The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (Volume 3) (2020) 2 copies
ATHINA E ZEZE 1 copy
Associated Works
The Scientific Enterprise in Antiquity and Middle Ages: Readings from Isis (1996) — Contributor — 14 copies
Greeks and barbarians : essays on the interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in antiquity and the consequences for… (1997) — Contributor — 5 copies
Arethusa (vol 25 no 1): Reconsidering Ovid's Fasti — Contributor — 2 copies
Arethusa (vol 28 no 1) — Contributor — 1 copy
Arethusa (vol 26 no 3) — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Bernal, Martin Gardiner
- Legal name
- Bernal, Martin Gardiner
- Birthdate
- 1937-03-10
- Date of death
- 2013-06-09
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Place of death
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Ithaca, New York, USA - Education
- Dartington Hall School
Cambridge University (King's College) - Occupations
- professor (Government and Near Eastern Studies | Cornell University | 1972-2001)
- Relationships
- Bernal, J. D. (father)
Gardiner, Margaret (mother)
Gardiner, Sir Alan (grandfather) - Organizations
- Cornell University
Members
Reviews
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical… by Martin Bernal
Difficult to evaluate. Not quite what I had been led to believe as far as black African influence and much about the influence of anti-Semitic ideas on Classical studies.
Although the influence of Egyptian and Near Eastern civilizations on ancient Greece is not controversial in either ancient or modern Greek historiography, the Afrocentric claims contained in Black Athena have been described as pseudohistory.
Persuasive, elegantly written, and not refuted yet by its critics. Speaks volumes about modern greek residual racism that Bernal's trilogy has not found a publisher in Greece, while its "refutation" by Levkowitz was immediately translated
I cannot really judge it, but i liked its basic ideas and its arguments. Recommended
Lists
Awards
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Statistics
- Works
- 18
- Also by
- 9
- Members
- 805
- Popularity
- #31,685
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 10
- ISBNs
- 38
- Languages
- 6
- Favorited
- 1