Mary Lefkowitz

Mary Lefkowitz Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College, Massa-chusetts, is the author of The Lives of the Greek Poets and Heroines and Hysterics and, with Maureen Fant, of Women’s Life in Greece and Rome.

Letter

Whose Greece?

12 December 1996

How curious! In Black Athena (1987 and 1991) Martin Bernal argues that the ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians ‘massively’ influenced early Greek civilisation in religion, philosophy and science. In our books, Not Out of Africa and Black Athena Revisited, we, along with 18 other ancient historians, archaeologists, Egyptologists and anthropologists, show that Bernal’s historical claims are not supported...

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Whose Greece?

Martin Bernal, 12 December 1996

The term ‘Afrocentrism’ was invented relatively recently, by Molefi Asante, a professor in Philadelphia, who described it as a way to escape from Eurocentrism by looking at the world...

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Old Flames

Peter Parsons, 10 January 1983

Time and philology turn dirt into dust. Housman had to veil Latin obscenity in Latin obscurity; Paul Brandt chose to publish under the speaking pseudonym of ‘Hans Licht’;...

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