The First Ethiopians: The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early Mediterranean World

by Malvern Van Wyk Smith (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $33.41

  Explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity. This book provides a survey of the special place that Aksumite Ethiopia has held in European and African conceptual worlds as the site of 'worthy Ethiopia'.