Athens-Benares Dialogues - Between Europeans, Semites, Egyptians and Indians: Rehabilitating the Greeks!

<body> <p><span lang=EN-GB style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1">This digest, which begins with Sunthar Visuvalingam’s exchanges on Dionysus and Bhairava with Gary C. Moore (founder of Ontological Ethics and Abhinavagupta forums), is best understood against the larger backdrop of the ongoing debates on (re-) situating ‘Hindu’ civilization within the ‘Indo-European’ world, a controversy over the (so-called) ‘arrival of the Aryans’ in South Asia that implicitly relies on the ‘</span><span style='mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1'><span class=ForeignLatin><span lang=LA>sui generis</span></span><span lang=EN-GB>’ nature of the Greek (= ‘European’) ‘miracle’. Among the topics examined are Indo-Greek cultural affinities and interactions; the ‘arrival of Indo-European’ in Greece; Martin Bernal’s theses on foundational Egyptian, Semite, and Minoan influences on the development of classical Greek civilization; the Indo-Mediterranean bull-fight/leaping as preserved in Spain and South India;<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>religio-cultural affinities between BMAC (Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex) and ancient Greece; and Mycenaean culture as a possible prolongation of Indo-Aryan expansion (via the Hyksos). Intertwined threads that focus on the Indus-Sarasvatî (non-) script, ‘Aryan’ ethnogenesis, linguistics (Sanskrit), and philosophy have been compiled into separate digests. Discussants include </span></span><a href="http://www.svabhinava.org/Roma/JoaquinAlbaicin/default.htm" target="_top"> <span lang=EN-GB style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1">Joaquín Albaicín</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1">, Lynn Gibson, </span><a href="../../HinduCivilization/BharatGupt/index.php" target="_top"><span lang=EN-GB style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1">Bharat Gupt</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1">, S. Kalyanaraman, Rajiv Malhotra, </span><a href="../../EsotericPhilosophy/JosephMartin/index.php" target="_top"> <span lang=EN-GB style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1">Joseph Martin</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1">, Gary C. Moore, David Russell Watson, Clyde A. Winters, ????.</span></p> <p> </p> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p> </body>