"Snowden’s book represents a significant breakthrough in understanding Greek and Roman attitudes toward a people they termed 'Ethiopians.' It cogently subverted the idea that blacks were simply denigrated, disparaged or despised. Snowden’s broad-gauged study, gathering all the available literary and archaeological testimony, irrevocably complicated the picture and, for the first time, undermined the notion of racial prejudice toward the blacks."

Recommended by Erich S. Gruen, Professor of History and Classics and author of Rethinking the Other in Antiquity.