Europe, having risen from the ruins of Rome, had to create an "origin" for itself to legitimize its superiority, so it extended its hand to Greece as an "intellectual prize," and cut it off from its Afro-Asian surroundings to establish it as the first pure producer of the Western mind.
This book addresses the shocking hypothesis that contemporary European civilization is not a purely internal evolution, but rather a clever reconstruction of older cultures, specifically Greek, Egyptian, Phoenician, and Oriental.
In this book:
How did Greece, which was the gateway to the East for Europe, become a symbol of Western origin and the antithesis of the East?
• How was Greek history "whitewashed" to become a purely Western origin?
What role did certain intellectual classes play in shaping this new identity?
• Who shaped the image of “classical Athens” that we know today, and how was this image used to build a barrier between civilizations?
This book is not just a critique of history, but a deconstruction of consciousness, a bold attempt to rearrange the historical and cultural map, and to restore the voice to the side that was removed from the dialogue.