South Africa, Greece, Rome : classical confrontations / edited by Grant Parker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parker, Grant Richard, 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

South Africa--Civilization--Classical influences.

South Africa.

Civilization, Classical.

Civilization--Classical influences.

Physical Description:

xxii, 544 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107100817

110710081X

OCLC:

993601726