This elegantly written book...collects evidence for artistic representations of African individuals in the ancient world from Egyptian to Roman times...[The] illustrations are well chosen and [show] how the ancient world saw the people of its southern frontiers.
   --P. L. Shinnie, American Historical Review

This cogent, well-written study is richly illustrated with 47 pages of plates of uniformly high quality.
   --Lionel Casson, Archeology

Frank M. Snowden Jr., is Professor of Classics, Howard University.

Read More by Frank M. Snowden:

• Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience
• The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I, From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire