Expert: Maria - 12/23/2007

Question
How did Bronze Age Greeks refer to the people of Nubia? Would they have called
them Nubians or Aithiopians. I've seen it both ways.

Also, I have a draft of a novel that is set in bronze age Greece. How do I find a
subject matter expert who might be willing to read it and make comments?

Answer
Hello,

the Bronze Age which in Greece began around 2500 BC and can be divided in Middle Bronze Age (c. 2500-1600 BC), i.e. the Minoan civilization in Crete Island, and Late Bronze Age (c.1600-1100 BC), i.e. the Mycenaean civilization in the city-state of Mycenae in the Peloponnese (southern Greece), has nothing to do with the ancient Nubians, who lived in the Nile Valley, in southern part  of ancient Egypt (today  between southern Egypt  and northern Sudan ).

The Nubians in fact were ruled by the Egyptians whose culture /civilization  strongly influenced them, while they had no relationship with the Greeks of the Bronze Age.

As for the  ancient Aethiopians, they were different from the Nubians and were generally placed in the northern and central Ethiopian Plateau, southeast  of ancient Egypt (today  Sudan).They also  were politically dominated by the Egyptian state and had no  relationship with the Greeks of the Bronze Age.

Finally, I'm sorry, but I know nobody who might  be willing to read the novel you mention  and make comments.

Best regards,
Maria