{"title":"CICERO'S ECLECTICISM AND ORIGINAUTY","authors":"D. V. Zyl","doi":"10.7445/35-3-4-563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/35-3-4-563","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most strenuous debates in regard to Cicero turns upon the comroversial subject of his eclecticism and originality, or lack of originality. Much of what is said on this subject, however, is simplistic or ill-considered, since it does not take account, on the one hand, of the relevant circumstances pertaining to Cicero's eclecticism nor, on the other hand, of the basis upon which his originality should be adjudicated","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"35 1","pages":"118-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71330481","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":"Latinae Linguae Hereditas Gentium","authors":"C. Schumann","doi":"10.7445/35-3-4-566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/35-3-4-566","url":null,"abstract":"\"Latinae linguae hereditas gentium\", die leuse van die \"School District of Philadelphia\" in die V.S.A., is seker net so van toepassing op Suid-Afrika. Dat hierdie erfenis egter besig is om aan ons skole en universiteite te kwyn, is alom bekend. Die kreet Latina lingua delenda est kom uit aile oorde en die jaarlikse afname in Latynleerlinge en -studente aan skole en universiteite wek kommer.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71330433","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":"DIE OORLEWING VAN DIE KLASSIEKE LETTERKUNDE GEDURENDE DIE KLASSIEKE OUDHEID","authors":"W. .. Henderson","doi":"10.7445/35-3-4-561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/35-3-4-561","url":null,"abstract":"\"Die tekste van die Griekse en Latynse outeurs het nie sommer uit die lug op ons lessenaars geval nie\" is 'n uitspraak wat seker al baie keer in klas- en lesingkamers gebruik is om skoliere en studente onder die indruk te bring van die wonderbaarlike oorlewing van die literere skatte van die Klassieke wereld. Maar nadat die studerende gehoor na behore belndruk is, word met die meer dringende taak van bestudering van die onderhawige teks voortgega.an. Die verhaal van die lang en gevaarlike reis van die antieke manuskripte, wat in baie gevalle herinner aan die wedervaringe van 'n Aeneas (jato profugus ...• multum ... et terris iactatu.s et alto, multa quoque et bello pass us, Verg. Aen. 1.1-5), word in enkele sinne afgemaak of geheel en al verswyg","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"35 1","pages":"100-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71330271","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 COLOSSEUM FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TILL THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES : A CASE OF LOST IDENTITY","authors":"A. Stekelenburg","doi":"10.7445/35-3-4-565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/35-3-4-565","url":null,"abstract":"From the moment the Amphitheatrum Flavium was finished it was felt that it surpassed the other monumental buildings of Rome. Martial, who witnessed the building process during the principate of the Flavians and the inauguration in 80 A.D., emphasises the towering presence of the Colosseum I and rates it higher than established world wonders like the Pyramids, the marvels of Babylon and the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus.2 More than 17 centuries later another poet, Lord Byron, gives expression to the awe the Colosseum, though reduced to half of its original bulk by forces of nature and human hands, still inspired in the 19th century, as it does today:","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"35 1","pages":"126-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71330380","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":"DIE GOUE VERSE VAN PUTHAGORAS","authors":"J. C. Thom","doi":"10.7445/35-3-4-562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/35-3-4-562","url":null,"abstract":"Die Goue verse (Xpvcra €nn) van die Puthagoreers is 'n kort gedig van 71 heksameters wat more1e en godsdienstige voorskrifte bevat. Alhoewe1 dit vandag relatief onbekend is, selfs onder klassici, was dit baie gewild en hoogaangeskrewe in die Antieke. In hierdie artike1 sal gepoog word om sommige van die redes hiervoor aan te toon.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71330328","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":"Blaming Agamemnon : moral conflict and the first choral sequence of Aeschylus' Agamemnon","authors":"Johnnie Jackson, M. Vermaak","doi":"10.7445/35-3-4-560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/35-3-4-560","url":null,"abstract":"Consider the following questions: is moral value subject to luck?2 How should we understand and cope with moral conflict?3 What do lines 40-263 of Aeschylus' Agamemnon mean, and why do the Chorus sing them? Martha Nussbaum in her recent book4 answers these questions and sees a deep connection between them. The sub-title of her book is \"Luck and Ethics in Greek philosophy and tragedy\" and in Chapter 2 she argues that the first choral sequence of Ag. answers the second question and gives a partial answer to the first. She also claims that Aeschylus has been misunderstood because of misguided modem philosophical assumptions concerning the two questions.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"35 1","pages":"90-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71330261","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":"Some Roman board games","authors":"T. Leary","doi":"10.7445/35-3-4-564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/35-3-4-564","url":null,"abstract":"Of the many themes treated in clever mock-didactic poems, table-games was one (Ovid Trist 2.485). Yet despite this, our knowledge is small and caution is always wise. What we know, we owe to Ovid,2 to Martial (14.13-18), to the so-called Laus Pisonis (P.L.M. 1.22lf.) and to one or two sources of lesser account. We have, too, the evidence of archaeology, and this is important.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"35 1","pages":"123-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71330494","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 COURTAULD COLLECTION AS A TEACIDNG TOOL","authors":"J. Maritz","doi":"10.7445/37-1-843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/37-1-843","url":null,"abstract":"Although western civilization has its roots in Classical antiquity, much of the Greek and\u0000Roman world is strange to us. This is particularly true in Southern Africa where we do not\u0000have the Romance languages, nor the physical remains - roads, bridges, aqueducts, villas,\u0000often still in the process of being excavated - surrounding us and therefore do not experience\u0000the same continuity of history as our European or British colleagues. It is also difficult to\u0000visualize the material culture. Photos help, but do not convey a sense of scale, or texture.\u0000Real understanding often depends on a hands-on experience, or at least a look at the original.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71330743","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":"TACITUS SE ANNALES I.1: 'N NARRATOLOGIESE ANALISE","authors":"A. Kotzé","doi":"10.7445/38-1-553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/38-1-553","url":null,"abstract":"1 INLEIDEND\u0000Oat Tacitus se geskiedskrywing behoort tot 'n eiesoortige letterkundige genre wat optimaal\u0000aan die hand van liter~re metodes ondersoek kan word, is 'n feit wat toenemend deur\u0000klassici as onomstrede aanvaar word. Opmerkings soos die deur Wellesley (1987:450) toon\u0000egter dat die navorser wat Tacitus se Annales suiwer liter~r wil benader, steeds sy\u0000invalshoek en werkwyse moet verdedig of ten minste duidelik moet omskryf:\u0000It must be questioned whether at this date the purely literary critic\u0000such as Aubrion can contribute greatly to a better understanding\u0000of Tacitus as historian.\u0000(Wellesley 1987:450)","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"6 1","pages":"19-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71330759","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 WESTERN CAPE BRANCHCHAIRMAN'S REPORT 1991/1992","authors":"M. R. Mezzabott","doi":"10.7445/38-1-556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7445/38-1-556","url":null,"abstract":"PersolUllia - Several of our members gained higher degrees in the last year: Diane Jorg~\u0000was awarded the degree of Master of Studies . (with distinction) from Oxford University,\u0000and Clive Chandler, Ingrid Hastings, Mark Hermans, Grant Parker and Suzanne Sharland\u0000all gained MA's from UCT. Mrs. Margaret Hewett (UCT) was promoted to Senior\u0000Lecturer. Assoc. Prof. Kathy Coleman received a further Von Humboldt award for a\u0000year's study in Germany. Grant Parker was awarded a scholarship to study at the\u0000Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich.","PeriodicalId":40864,"journal":{"name":"Akroterion-Journal for the Classics in South Africa","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71331028","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}