Africa and Africans as Seen by Classical Writers

Aegean Aegean area Aeschylus African history Agatharchides Amenhotep Amenhotep III antiquity archeological Arctinus of Miletus Asia Asian Bion celebrated cient civilization concerning Ethiopia connection considerable Cretan Crete culture dating designated Diodorus Dionysus discoveries early Greek Egyptian eighth century B.C. Eratosthenes Ethi Ethiopian Ethiopian type Euripides evidence excavations fact fragment geographical gods gold Greece Greek Hansberry's Hecataeus Herodotus Hesiod historian Homer Howard University Iliad indicate island king Knossos known Kush land later legends literature Memnon mentioned Meroe millennium B.C. Minoan civilization Minoan period modern Napata Naukratis Negro Negroid Nile notices Odyssey opia opians origin passage Persia ples Pliny Pliny's poems poet preserved Ptolemy race records references and allusions references to Ethiopia region Roman Schliemann scholars seems Sir Arthur Evans sixth century B.C. sources south of Egypt specifically story Strabo Sudan thought tion towns Troy truth William Leo Hansberry