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The earliest known contact between Greece and Africa occurred in the Bronze Age, during the fourteenth century BCE, when the Minoans began to trade with Egypt. The first narratives mentioning Greek contact with Africa are in the Homeric poems, which date to the eighth century BCE.
Oct 1, 2008 · Homer is said to have spent seven years in Africa, and studied law, philosophy, religion, astronomy, and politics. Many of the great European philosophers studied in Africa because it was the educational capital of the ancient world.
For 500 years Greece stood silent, in what historians now call the Greek Dark Ages. And then, almost overnight in historical terms, a new dawn broke over Greece. Homer created his epic poems the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey," emphasizing honor and virtue to his new countrymen.
Sep 15, 2020 · At the time, I had almost finished teaching my new module ‘Africa and the Making of Classical Literature’, and my immediate answer would have been: “Actually, very canonical”. My students had been reading, among other authors, Homer, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, Horace, Sallust, Livy.
Africa: Greek and Roman Perspectives from Homer to Apuleius. Prudence J. Jones. A sourcebook of selected excerpts used in conjunction with the Montclaire State University course, Africa in Classical Antiquity (HUMN 381). Made available here by permission of the author. Cite this work.
For instance, the Hippocratic Corpus and Herodotus guide the placement of the chapter on geography and ethnography in second position, following the chapter that considers Greek myths about Africa, which come in significant part from and are greatly influenced by Homer and Hesiod.
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Prudence J. Jones, Africa: Greek and Roman Perspectives from Homer to Apuleius Introduction 1. Early Greek Contact with Africa 2. Geographers and Ethnographers on Africa 3. Greek Colonization Before Alexander 4. Imperialism: The Persians and Alexander the Great 5.
