`  ::No, I haven't  though I remember when it came out.  Sort of a companion  not in actuality, but in subject matter  to Chancellor Williams' The Destruction of Black Civilization.  If you're getting at the fact that Cleopatra could have been Greek and black  well, that's possible.  I haven't given it a lot of thought, frankly.  I used to think Cleopatra was black and then not  but I guess I haven't cared enough to read up on the subject.  When I responded to the last poster in the other forum, I decided to address his appalling ignorance more broadly  which concerns me more.  The big picture and not which person of note was what color  except as examples of a general population.  Without reading Black Athena, however, I know enough from other reading  about Etruscans, Phoenicians, etc.  that there was a substantial African presence in those cultures  and that ancient Greece was heavily influenced by black Egypt.  (One obvious appropriation:  so-called ``Greek architecture,`` many elements of which actually are black African/Egyptian in origin.  (Have you read it?) Peace.  `