South Africa, Greece, Rome : classical confrontations
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Parker, Grant Richard, 1967-
, [HerausgeberIn]
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge :
University Printing House,
2017.
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| Umfang/Format: |
566 pages : illustrations. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
South Africa |
| Online Zugang: |
Online available (Cambridge Core) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Prologue
- The Azanian muse: classicism in unexpected places / Grant Parker
- Conceiving empire
- 'Poetry in pidgin': notes on the persistence of classicism in the architecture of Johannesburg / Federico Freschi
- Cecil John Rhodes, the classics, and imperialism / John Hilton
- The 'Mediterranean' cape: reconstructing an ethos / Peter Merrington
- Conceiving the nation
- 'Copy nothing': classical ideals and Afrikaner ideologies at the Voortrekker monument / Elizabeth Rankin and Rolf Michael Schneider
- Greeks, Romans, and volks-education in the Afrikaner kinderensiklopedie / Philip R. Bosman
- Law, virtue and truth-telling
- A competing discourse on empire / Jonathan Allen
- After Cicero: legal thought from antiquity to the new constitution / Deon H. van Zyl
- Cultures of collecting
- Museum space and displacement: collecting classical antiquities in South Africa / Samantha Masters
- Antique casts for a colonial gallery: the Beit bequest of classical statuary to Cape Town / Anna Tietze
- Cecil Rhodes as a reader of the classics: the Groote Schuur Collection / David Wardle
- Boundary crossers
- 'You are people like these Romans were!': D. D. T. Jabavu of Fort Hare / Jo-Marie Claassen
- Benjamin Farrington and the science of the swerve / John Atkinson
- Athens and apartheid: Mary Renault and classics in South Africa / Nikolai Endres
- Antiquity's undertone: classical resonances in the poetry of Douglas Livingstone / Kathleen M. Coleman
- After apartheid
- Bacchus at Kirstenbosch: reflections of a play director / Roy Sargeant
- The reception of the Electra myth in Yael Farber's Molora / Elke Steinmeyer
- Classical heritage? : by way of an afterword / Grant Parker.
