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  • Multimedia at Minoan Myrtos–Pyrgos, Crete
  • 19 February 2024, Judith Weingarten, Silvia Ferrara and Gerald Cadogan
  • It is rare in the scholarship of Bronze Age Crete, during a period as old as the third and second millennia BCE, to present an inclusive account and analysis...

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  • Aztecs: Image and Reality
  • 28 February 2024, Susan Kellogg
  • When I tell anyone what I study, people (even sometimes other academics) think it’s weird, distasteful, or just arcane. If the Indigenous population of the The post Aztecs: Image and Reality first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
  • The Limits of Electoral Democracy: Recovering a Lost Chapter of Anti-Colonialism
  • 27 February 2024, Tejas Parasher
  • In February 1946, the Indian nationalist leader Narendra Deva (1889-1956), who had just spent three long years being held in prison at Ahmednagar Fort by British The post The Limits of Electoral Democracy: Recovering a Lost Chapter of Anti-Colonialism first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
  • Two Soviet Humorists’ Extraordinary American Road Trip
  • 22 February 2024, Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
  • In 1935, just two years after the normalization of Soviet American relations, Pravda sent two humorists to the United States as reporters and cultural ambassadors. The post Two Soviet Humorists’ Extraordinary American Road Trip first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....


Color Us Greek

While it’s too much to imagine that those endlessly fascinating Greek ancestors of ours were color-blind, they most certainly were keen on marking difference, linguistically and geographically. But what about “racially?” What was “blackness” to a citizen of Ancient Greece, and what did the blackness of Sub-Saharan Africans, in fact, signify? And what in the world did an “Ethiopian” such as Memnon, whose people were favored by the gods, appear to be physically in the Greek imagination? Speculation about such complex matters has never elicited more energetic speculation and wishful thinking from scholars, journalists, and filmmakers than today, who inevitably read Greek attitudes toward physical differences through the lens of black-white race relations in the West today. Which is why Sarah Derbew’s Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity is a most welcome corrective to the school of Afrocentricity that would paint even Greek-descended Cleopatra black. Bringing deep learning and calm, convincing reasoning to a politically-loaded subject is always difficult. But Professor Derbew accomplishes this task with eloquence, grace, and hard-hitting analytical skills that make this book must reading for all of us who long to know how racial differences manifested themselves in the sublime culture from which we all descend.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Harvard University