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| Preface and Acknowledgements | |
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| Transcription and Phonetics | |
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| Maps and Charts | |
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| Chronological Table | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Background | |
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| Proposed historical outline | |
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| Black Athena, Volume 1: a summary of the argument | |
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| Greece European or Levantine? The Egyptian and West Semitic Components of Greek Civilization / a summary of Volume 2 | |
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| Solving the Riddle of the Sphinx and Other Studies in Egypto-Greek Mytholog / a summary of Volume 3 | |
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| The Ancient Model in Antiquity | |
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| Pelasgians | |
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| Ionians | |
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| Colonization | |
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| The colonizations in Greek tragedy | |
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| Herodotos | |
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| Thucydides | |
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| Isokrates and Plato | |
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| Aristotle | |
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| Theories of colonization and later borrowing in the Hellenistic world | |
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| Plutarch's attack on Herodotos | |
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| The triumph of Egyptian religion | |
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| Alexander son of Ammon | |
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| Egyptian Wisdom and Greek Transmission from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance | |
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| The murder of Hypatia | |
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| The collapse of Egypto-Pagan religion | |
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| Christianity, stars and fish | |
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| The relics of Egyptian religion: Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism and Gnosticism | |
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| Hermeticism--Greek, Iranian, Chaldaean or Egyptian? | |
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| Hermeticism and Neo-Platonism under early Christianity, Judaism and Islam | |
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| Hermeticism in Byzantium and Christian Western Europe | |
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| Egypt in the Renaissance | |
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| Copernicus and Hermeticism | |
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| Hermeticism and Egypt in the 16th century | |
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| The Triumph of Egypt in the 17th and 18th Centuries | |
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| Hermeticism in the 17th century | |
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| Rosicrucianism: Ancient Egypt in Protestant countries | |
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| Ancient Egypt in the 18th century | |
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| The 18th century: China and the Physiocrats | |
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| The 18th century: England, Egypt and the Freemasons | |
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| France, Egypt and 'progress': the quarrel between Ancients and Moderns | |
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| Mythology as allegory for Egyptian science | |
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| The Expedition to Egypt | |
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| Hostilities to Egypt in the 18th Century | |
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| Christian reaction | |
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| The 'triangle': Christianity and Greece against Egypt | |
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| The alliance between Greece and Christianity | |
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| 'Progress' against Egypt | |
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| Europe as the 'progressive' continent | |
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| 'Progress' | |
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| Racism | |
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| Romanticism | |
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| Ossian and Homer | |
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| Romantic Hellenism | |
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| Winckelmann and Neo-Hellenism in Germany | |
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| Gottingen | |
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| Romantic Linguistics | |
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| The rise of India and the fall of Egypt, 1740-1880 | |
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| The birth of Indo-European | |
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| The love affair with Sanskrit | |
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| Schlegelian Romantic linguistics | |
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| The Oriental Renaissance | |
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| The fall of China | |
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| Racism in the early 19th century | |
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| What colour were the Ancient Egyptians? | |
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| The national renaissance of modern Egypt | |
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| Dupuis, Jomard and Champollion | |
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| Egyptian monotheism or Egyptian polytheism | |
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| Popular perceptions of Ancient Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries | |
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| Elliot Smith and 'diffusionism' | |
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| Jomard and the Mystery of the Pyramids | |
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| Hellenomania, 1 | |
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| The fall of the Ancient Model, 1790-1830 | |
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| Friedrich August Wolf and Wilhelm von Humboldt | |
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| Humboldt's educational reforms | |
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| The Philhellenes | |
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| Dirty Greeks and the Dorians | |
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| Transitional figures, 1: Hegel and Marx | |
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| Transitional figures, 2: Heeren | |
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| Transitional figures, 3: Barthold Niebuhr | |
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| Petit-Radel and the first attack on the Ancient Model | |
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| Karl Otfried Muller and the overthrow of the Ancient Model | |
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| Hellenomania, 2 | |
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| Transmission of the new scholarship to England and the rise of the Aryan Model, 1830-60 | |
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| The German model and educational reform in England | |
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| George Grote | |
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| Aryans and Hellenes | |
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| The Rise and Fall of the Phoenicians, 1830-85 | |
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| Phoenicians and anti-Semitism | |
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| What race were the Semites? | |
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| The linguistic and geographical inferiorities of the Semites | |
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| The Arnolds | |
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| Phoenicians and English, 1: the English view | |
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| Phoenicians and English, 2: the French view | |
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| Salammbo | |
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| Moloch | |
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| The Phoenicians in Greece: 1820-80 | |
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| Gobineau's image of Greece | |
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| Schliemann and the discovery of the 'Mycenaeans' | |
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| Babylon | |
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| The Final Solution of the Phoenician Problem, 1885-1945 | |
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| The Greek Renaissance | |
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| Salomon Reinach | |
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| Julius Beloch | |
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| Victor Berard | |
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| Akhenaton and the Egyptian Renaissance | |
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| Arthur Evans and the 'Minoans' | |
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| The peak of anti-Semitism, 1920-39 | |
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| 20th-century Aryanism | |
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| Taming the alphabet: the final assault on the Phoenicians | |
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| The Post-War Situation | |
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| The return to the Broad Aryan Model, 1945-85 | |
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| The post-war situation | |
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| Developments in Classics, 1945-65 | |
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| The model of autochthonous origin | |
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| East Mediterranean contacts | |
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| Mythology | |
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| Language | |
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| Ugarit | |
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| Scholarship and the rise of Israel | |
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| Cyrus Gordon | |
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| Astour and Hellenosemitica | |
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| Astour's successor?--J. C. Billigmeier | |
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| An attempt at compromise: Ruth Edwards | |
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| The return of the Iron Age Phoenicians | |
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| Naveh and the transmission of the alphabet | |
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| The return of the Egyptians? | |
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| The Revised Ancient Model | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Were the Philistines Greek? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |