 
Blacks in Antiquity
Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman
Experience
By Frank M. Snowden
Published on / after 1970/2005
at by Harvard
University Press.
1st
edition, ISBN
0674076265
0-674-07626-5, softback,
365 pages, 120 halftones, 1 table. Unused
and unread, overall condition: very
good.
Info
The Africans who came
to ancient Greece and Italy participated in an important chapter of
classical history. Although evidence indicated that the alien dark-
and black-skinned people were of varied tribal and geographic origins,
the Greeks and Romans classified many of them as Ethiopians. In an effort
to determine the role of black people in ancient civilization, Mr. Snowden
examines a broad span of Greco-Roman experience--from the Homeric era
to the age of Justinian--focusing his attention on the Ethiopians as
they were known to the Greeks and Romans. The author dispels unwarranted
generalizations about the Ethiopians, contending that classical references
to them were neither glorifications of a mysterious people nor caricatures
of rare creatures.
Mr. Snowden has probed literary, epigraphical, papyrological, numismatic,
and archaeological sources and has considered modern anthropological
and sociological findings on pertinent racial and intercultural problems.
He has drawn directly upon the widely scattered literary evidence of
classical and early Christian writers and has synthesized extensive
and diverse material. Along with invaluable reference notes, Mr. Snowden
has included over 140 illustrations which depict the Negro as the Greeks
and Romans conceived of him in mythology and religion and observed him
in a number of occupations--as servant, diplomat, warrior, athlete,
and performer, among others.
Presenting an exceptionally comprehensive historical description of
the first major encounter of Europeans with dark and black Africans,
Mr. Snowden found that the black man in a predominantly white society
was neither romanticized nor scorned--that the Ethiopian in classical
antiquity was considered by pagan and Christian without prejudice.
1. The Physical Characteristics
of Ethiopians--the Textual Evidence
Appendix: Names of Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman World
2. The Physical Characteristics of Ethiopians--the Archaeological Evidence
Illustrations
3. Greco-Roman Acquaintance with African Ethiopians
4. Greek Encounters with Ethiopian Warriors
5. Roman Encounters with Ethiopian Warriors
6. Ethiopians in Classical Mythology
7. Ethiopians in the Theater and Amphitheater
8. Greco-Roman Attitude toward Ethiopians--Theory and Practice
9. Early Christian Attitude toward Ethiopians--Creed and Conversion
Blacks in a White Society--a Summation
Illustrations
Notes
Indexes
General
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