Black Athena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Black Athena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, its three volumes first published in 1987, 1991, and 2006 respectively, is a scholarly work by Martin Bernal. He discusses ancient Greece
in a new light. Bernal's controversial thesis discusses the perception
of ancient Greece in relation to Greece's African and Asiatic neighbors,
especially the ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians who, he believes, colonized ancient Greece.


Bernal proposes that a change in the Western perception of Greece
took place from the 18th century onward and that this change fostered a
subsequent denial by Western academia of any significant African and Phoenician influence on ancient Greek civilization.