![]() 96-98 (on theGreek debt to Egypt) 3.11.1-3(on sources for Egyptian history)įragments of Minoan fresco from Avaris in Egypt, Hyksos period,1674-1566 BC (evidence of Greek settlement in Egypt, not Egyptianinvasion of Greece). Xenophon, Symposium5.6 (Socrates on his own appearance).ĭiodorus 1.55 (afirst century BC Egyptian account of how Egypt supposedly conqueredmost of the world around 1500 years earlier) 1. Herodotus 2.43 (the descent of Heracles) 2.49 (on the cults of Dionysus and Osiris) 2.104 (on Egyptians as dark-skinned people) 2.171 ("mysteries" of Osiris which were in fact public).Īpollodorus 3.14.1-8(the Greek view: autochthony of Cecrops and Erechtheus). Major Primary Sources for the Black Athena Dispute We are not concerned herewith the rightness or wrongness of his conclusions, however, butmerely with the facts that he himself believed in them and that hewas being relatively conventional in doing so. ![]() ![]() Thus Herodotus would seem to have been using reason rather than a blindfaith in tradition, and the method of competitive plausibility whichwould seem appropriate for such a subject. ![]()
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