{"title":"CYLINDER SEALS IN THE COLLECTIONS OF IZIKO MUSEUMS OF SOUTH AFRICA IN CAPE TOWN AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT STUDIES OF STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY","authors":"Van Dijk-Coombes","doi":"10.7445/61-1-962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/61-1-962","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the cylinder seals in the collections of Iziko Museums of South Africa in Cape Town and the Department of Ancient Studies of Stellenbosch University. The individual seals are described and there is an iconographic analysis of the scenes and motifs depicted on each seal, with comparisons to other artefacts. These seals date from the Early Dynastic period until the Persian period (ca. 3100-332 BC) and represent motifs such as deities, mythological beings and the ‘master of animals’, and scenes such as the contest scene and presentation scene.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"61 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44984772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REASSESSING LATIN PEDAGOGY: A PROPOSED MODEL FOR SOUTH AFRICAN LEARNERS","authors":"M. Dircksen","doi":"10.7445/61-1-965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/61-1-965","url":null,"abstract":"At present two models of instruction predominate the scene of mainstream 21st century Latin pedagogy. The first, commonly known as the ‘philological model’ or ‘grammar-and-translation’ method, has been prevalent since the early days of classical scholarship and still forms the basis of methodology at most South African universities. During the past two decades the second, the so-called ‘living language’ method, has become popular in schools and universities across the United States. Both methodologies are examined and evaluated in this article. Based on this short overview of Latin pedagogy, a model is then proposed to accommodate generation Y students of Latin at South African universities utilising both the ‘living language’ method and the ‘flipped class-room’ approach. Since the student profile of the North West University has changed dramatically over the past few years to include an ever increasing number of distance students, the challenge has been to accommodate the needs of these students without sacrificing the preferred approach or method. Excerpts taken from a learning management system,1 developed for the Oxford Latin Course and aimed at distance students, will finally illustrate how the learning of these students is facilitated. The LMS in question is also aimed at secondary school learners who are keen to follow an online Latin course.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"61 1","pages":"59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42791517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"KVSA VERTAALPRYS / CASA TRANSLATION PRIZE","authors":"Helen Lenahan","doi":"10.7445/61-1-969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/61-1-969","url":null,"abstract":"The CASA translation competition is sponsored annually for the best student translation from, or into, either Latin or Classical Greek.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43864121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICA: FEBRUARY 1983 – JANUARY 1985","authors":"W. Henderson","doi":"10.7445/61-1-966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/61-1-966","url":null,"abstract":"Previous articles on the history of the Classical Association of South Africa, based on archival material, covered the period from 1908 to 1983. The present instalment takes this history to the beginning of 1985.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"61 1","pages":"75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45930657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Νόμος ὁ πάντων βασιλεύς: Pindar, Callicles and Plato’s treatment of νόμος in the Gorgias","authors":"Konstantinos Stefou","doi":"10.7445/60-1-953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/60-1-953","url":null,"abstract":"The interpretation of Pindar’s poem in the Gorgias has greatly concerned scholars. Methodologically, the most appropriate approach to interpretation of the poem is to try and answer the four fundamental questions that arise: a) what is the central idea that governs Pindar’s poem in its extra-Platonic presence, as an autonomous poetic composition? b) which dramatic character refers to Pindar’s authority? c) what basic ideological direction does he follow and d) what is Plato’s literary goal? This paper will illuminate the aspects of the above questions, proceeding to a new interpretative approach of the Platonic use of the poem.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71335106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LANDSCAPING THE BODY: ANATOMICAL-GEOGRAPHICAL BAWDY IN ARISTOPHANES AND SHAKESPEARE, AND POLITICALLY INCORRECT HUMOUR","authors":"F. Pauw","doi":"10.7445/59-0-942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/59-0-942","url":null,"abstract":"In this article two bawdy passages are compared. In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata , Athenian and Spartan negotiators, driven to a state of desperation by their women’s sex-strike, map out their respective sexo-territorial demands on the sexy body of the personified Reconciliation . In Shakespeare’s The comedy of errors , again, Dromio of Syracuse is trying to escape from the rotund kitchen maid Nell, who believes that he is her husband, Dromio of Ephesus. In both passages a woman’s body is imagined as a geopolitical entity to be mapped out by men. Thus, geographical allusions occur which ostensibly denote real contemporary geopolitical entities in 411 BC or AD 1592, but often connote allusions, some of them obscene, to female body parts. In taking issue with the interpretation that real women are debased by the depiction of fictional women in these passages, I base my arguments on (i) the underrated positive function of humour; (ii) the generic function of comedy; (iii) the illusionary nature of dramatic representation; (iv) the carnivalesque; and (v) the probable composition of the audience.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"59 1","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2015-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71334530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICA: FEBRUARY 1981 – JANUARY 1983","authors":"W. Henderson","doi":"10.7445/59-0-948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/59-0-948","url":null,"abstract":"This article continues the history of the Classical Association of South Africa as recorded in the archives of the Association. Since the publication of the previous accounts, an important study has appeared, which reconstructs some of the political, social and cultural contexts in which the activities of the Association, as reflected in my archival reports, were imbedded. I refer to Michael Lambert’s book, The Classics and South African Identities (2011). Lambert’s work now adds flesh on to the bare bones of the archival material.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"59 1","pages":"123-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2015-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71335034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CASA ESSAY - SELF-SATIRE IN THE CENA TRIMALCHIONIS","authors":"C. Bronkhorst","doi":"10.7445/59-0-949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/59-0-949","url":null,"abstract":"The modern reader of the Cena Trimalchionis, seeing the episode grouped under the larger title Satyrica, could hardly be blamed for assuming a priori that Petronius had written a satirical work. Yet, in making this assumption, the reader overlooks a question central to the debate over the interpretation of Petronius' work: 'Can the Cena be read as a moralising or satirical work?'","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"59 1","pages":"141-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2015-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71335077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fighting in the phalanx: The moral nature of the ὁπλιτικὴ τέχνη","authors":"Luca Sansone di Campobianco","doi":"10.7445/59-0-943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/59-0-943","url":null,"abstract":"These pages wish to offer a brief reflection on an aspect of the process of professionalization that Greek warfare underwent from the end of the fifth century BC onward (all dates hereafter BC). The analysis will focus on the content and nature of the τέχνη that the Greek hoplite ought to acquire to become a χeιροτέχνης — an expert artisan in massed combat . 1 The intention is to explore whether this τέχνη could be understood not as technical proficiency in a certain military skill that the hoplite acquires by practice but as a choice he is trained to make between eὐταξία and ἀταξία . These terms, usually understood in a technical acceptation as ‘order / discipline’ and ‘disorder / insubordination’, will be presented here as frames of mind [ ἤθη τῆς ψυχῆς ] and discussed in the light of Plato’s use of the terms eὐψυχία and κακοψυχία as hallmarks of the good and bad hoplite.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"59 1","pages":"29-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2015-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71334539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ON THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE ROMAN TROOPS FROM THE DODECASCHOENOS IN AD 298: MANY QUESTIONS AND FEW ANSWERS — THE PROBLEMS IN PERSPECTIVE","authors":"B. Hendrickx","doi":"10.7445/59-0-944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/59-0-944","url":null,"abstract":"In 298 Diocletian withdrew the Roman troops from the Dodecaschoenos, thereby — according to Procopius — making a treaty with the Nobadai and the Blemmyes and creating a buffer zone to be filled and administered by the Nubians. In this article I examine with which people(s) or groups the Romans fought at the Nubian limiton at the end of the 3 rd century AD and made peace, which was the former and later status of this ‘buffer zone’, and finally when and why was the balance, realized in AD 298, disturbed. There remain more questions than answers to the problems. This article discusses the different viewpoints and theories concerning the Roman withdrawal in the framework of the Meroitic Kingdom and the existing relationship with different tribes. This will lead to a more ‘refined’ understanding and assessment of the problematic of this historically complicated situation, and thus narrowing the problems, while proposing some solutions for some specific questions.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"59 1","pages":"47-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2015-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71334550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}