Black Athena : the Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, The Linguistic Evidence.
Could Greek philosophy be rooted in Egyptian thought? Is it possible that the Pythagorean theory was conceived on the shores of the Nile and the Euphrates rather than in ancient Greece? Could it be that much of Western civilization was formed on the "Dark Continent"? For almost two centuri...
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505 | 0 | |a Preface and Acknowledgments; Transcriptions and Phonetics; Maps and Charts; Introduction; Chapter 1: Historical Linguistics and the Image of Ancient Greek; Chapter 2: The "Nostratic" and "Euroasiatic" Hyper- and Super-Families; Chapter 3: Afroasiatic, Egyptian and Semitic; Chapter 4: The Origins of Indo-Hittite and Indo-European and Their Contacts with Other Languages; Chapter 5: The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 1, Phonology; Chapter 6: The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 2, Morphological and Syntactical Developments. | |
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