Preface

Transcriptions and Phonetics

Maps and Charts

Introduction

I Egyptology

1. Can We We Fair? A Reply to John Baines

2. Greece is Not Nubia: A Reply to David O’Connor

II Classics

3. Who is Qualified to Write Greek History? A Reply to Lawrence A. Tritle

4. How Did the Egyptian Way of Death Reach Greece? A Reply to Emily Vermeule

5. Just Smoke and Mirrors? A Reply to Edith Hall

III Linguistics

6. Ausnahmslosigkeit über Alles: A Reply to Jay H. Jasanoff and Alan Nussbaum
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IV Historiography
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7. Accuracy and/or Coherence? A Reply to Robert Norton, Robert Palter, and Josine Blok

8. Passion and Politics: A Reply to Guy Rogers

9. The British Utilitarians, Imperialism, and the Fall of the Ancient Model

V Science

10. Was There a Greek Scientific Miracle? A Reply to Robert Palter

11. Animadversions on the Origins of Western Science

VI Recent Broadening Scholarship

12. Greek Art Without Egypt, Hamlet Without the Prince: A Review of Sarah Morris’s Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art

13. One or Several Revolutions? A Review of Walter Burkert’s The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age

14. There’s a Mountain in the Way: A Review of Martin West’s The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth

15. Phoenician Politics and Egyptian Justice in Ancient Greece

VII. A Popularizing Effort

16. All Not Quiet on the Wellesley Front: A Review of Not Out of Africa

Conclusion

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index