++ The Fabrication of Ancient Greece - Interview with Prof. Martin Bernal

The Fabrication of Ancient Greece - Interview with Prof. Martin Bernal


The pre-Greek Roots of Western Culture

"In intellectual history, and in etymological dictionaries, Classical Greece is usually the bedrock. The origins of Hellenic language and culture are supposed to lie in the second millenium B.C., when Indo-European-speaking invaders swept down into Greece from the North, and ultimately brought logic and democracy to the decadent Mediterranean.

In "Black Athena", Martin Bernal agrees that the Greek language came with invaders from the North. However, he argues that classical Greek culture does not spring from the arrival of these Northerners, but rather from the subsequent imposition upon them of Semitic and Egyptian culture. This is supposed to have happened in the 18th century B.C. when the Hyksos invasion of Egypt overflowed into Crete, and on through the Aegean to Greece.

He attacks Classicists of the last two centuries for their whitewashing of classical Greece, and alleges that, assuming the racial superiority of Europeans, they ignored the swarthy races of the Western Mediterranean, and looked only at vigorous Northern barbarians as originators of Greek culture.

There are many detailed arguments and observations that Bernal assembles to justify his "Revised Ancient Model" of Greek origins."

Interview with Prof. Martin Bernal

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