The multicultural myth in question is that much of what we think of as Greek contributions to Western civilization were really stolen from Africa--or at any rate from Egypt. Professor Lefkowitz had aroused a hornet's nest by attacking that myth, but, as she reports in this absorbing conversation--which ranges from Cleopatra's parentage to Plato's philosophy to modern cultural relativism--the fuss was subsiding and the myth was "crumbling." ML: "If we want people to learn about Egypt and ancient Africa, the place to begin is not with Eurocentric mythology.... It's with real Africa and what we can know about that through Egyptian documents and any other information that's out there."