Black Athena Revisited

Mary R. Lefkowitz, Guy MacLean Rogers

UNC Press Books, 1996 - History - 522 pages

Was Western civilization founded by ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians?
Can the ancient Egyptians usefully be called black?
Did the ancient Greeks borrow religion, science, and philosophy from the Egyptians and Phoenicians?
Have scholars i

About the author

Mary R. Lefkowitz is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. She is author of Not Out of Africa and coeditor of Women's Life in Greece and Rome. Guy MacLean Rogers, professor of Greek and Latin and history at Wellesley College, is author of The Sacred Identity of Ephesos: Foundation Myths of a Roman City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Black Athena Revisited; Series;[jossey-Bass Education
• Editors: Mary R. Lefkowitz, Guy MacLean Rogers
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: UNC Press Books, 1996
• ISBN: 0807845558, 9780807845554
• Length: 522 pages
• Subjects: History / Ancient / Greece; History / World