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The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity (edition 2006)

by Benjamin Isaac

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I just paid $32 American, for The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity by Benjamin Isaac. The cover alone is worth the price. Here is the description found on the back of the book.
"Cover illustration: Caeretan black-figure hydria, ca. 510 BC Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Drawing: A. Furtwiingler & K. Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei; Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder (Munchen, 1904), PI. 51. The image shows the Greek hero Heracles before the altar on which the Egyptian king Busiris tried to sacrifice him like other strangers before him. Heracles runs amuck, dispatches Busiris, tramples and flings around his servants, all clearly recognizable as Egyptians." I shouldn't have to had waited this long to find out that Heracles was a black super hero before he became a Greek god. ( )
1 vote | quicksiva | Nov 23, 2010 |
I just paid $32 American, for The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity by Benjamin Isaac. The cover alone is worth the price. Here is the description found on the back of the book.
"Cover illustration: Caeretan black-figure hydria, ca. 510 BC Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Drawing: A. Furtwiingler & K. Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei; Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder (Munchen, 1904), PI. 51. The image shows the Greek hero Heracles before the altar on which the Egyptian king Busiris tried to sacrifice him like other strangers before him. Heracles runs amuck, dispatches Busiris, tramples and flings around his servants, all clearly recognizable as Egyptians." I shouldn't have to had waited this long to find out that Heracles was a black super hero before he became a Greek god. ( )
1 vote | quicksiva | Nov 23, 2010 |

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