Bernal – Introduction to Black Athena

Martin Bernal. Introduction to Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. Bernal notes in the introduction that he is concerned with providing an alternative genesis/genealogy of ancient Greek culture that traces the beginnings of the Classical and Hellenic ages not to Aryan settlers from Europe but from near Eastern, Egyptian, and Semitic cultures (collectively known as the Levantine).  In contrast to the Levantine genealogy,... Read More

Agnew – “The Classical Period”

Lois Agnew – “The Classical Period” from The Present State of Scholarship in the History of Rhetoric: A 21st Century Guide eds. Gaillet and Horner Agnew’s essay highlights the revisionary turn in the histories of rhetoric that have occurred since the previous edition of The Present State of Scholarship (1988) as well as the other major pieces written in the interim between the second edition and the third edition (2010).  In the way of sophistic... Read More