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 classicalantiquity was considered by
pagan and Christian without prejudice.
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