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Akroterion

E-ISSN: 2079-2883
Akroterion is published annually by the Department of Ancient Studies, University of Stellenbosch, with the financial support of the Classical Association of South Africa. The journal publishes articles in English or Afrikaans aimed at the non-specialist, covering all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, but focusing especially on the influence and reception of the Classics.
Publisher | University of Stellenbosch |
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Frequency | Annually |
Coverage | Volume 15 Issue 1 1970 - Volume 41 Issue 1-2 1996; Volume 45 Issue 1 2000 - current |
Accreditation(s) |
Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) |
Language | English/Afrikaans |
Journal Status | Active |
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Die geskiedenis van die departemente grieks en latyn aan die universiteit van die vrystaat
’n Era is verby, ’n era waartydens die twee antieke tale wat aan die basis van ons Westerse beskawing lê, wat van die eerste vakke was wat aan die Universiteit van die Vrystaat (destyds die Grey Universiteitskollege) aangebied is, nou op die agtergrond geskuif word. Die twee tale, Grieks en Latyn, het ontwikkel tot twee sterk departemente in die Fakulteit Lettere en Wysbegeerte (later Geesteswetenskappe), maar in die laaste dekade eers hul selfstandigheid verloor, en daarna verloor een van die twee, Latyn, sy bestaansreg aan die UV. In die hieropvolgende verslag word die geskiedenis van die Departemente Grieks en Latyn sedert hul ontstaan in 1904 nagevolg, en hul rol in die universiteit en die land uitgelig.
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Selections from strato’s musa paidike : an Afrikaans translation
I have selected ten epigrams attributed to Straton of Sardis and translated them into Afrikaans. The inspiration came to me as I realised that there is a need to break social barriers that have burdened the LGBTQ+ community. I often meet young men who have suppressed their feelings out of fear for their families and social expectations. In order to combat these fears, there is a plethora of published literature that deals with homosexuality, however, there is a clear lack of Afrikaans publications. In the case of these epigrams, it seems that translators tend to shy away from them as they are evidently vulgar and touches sensitive topics and thus, I decided to undertake this translation. These epigrams were admittedly written in a different time with different views on sexuality, this does not, however, deny the existence of sexual attraction and love between the same sex. The more material that is available to young people, the more homosexuality will be normalised, assisting many individuals to accept themselves.
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Mimesis as poetic tool and metapoetic comment in ovid
Ovid orders words in one or more verses to make them imitate an aspect of the event they narrate. Protean syntax, modified to suit the situation. reinforces the protean theme of mutability. Syntax pictures sense.
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Bran the broken : classical precedents for the figure of bran stark in G R R Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels and in the game of thrones television series
This article seeks to explain why many viewers and fans of the Game of thrones series and the novels that inspired them were disappointed and frustrated with the ending of the eighth season. Although it has long been observed that kingship often coincided with magical powers or the abilities of the seer in a wide range of early human societies, we have come to prefer the heroes whom we celebrate and the seers or wise people who advise them to be separate entities. Bran Stark endured physical disability as the result of an attempted assassination as a child; either in spite of this or because of this, he developed soothsaying powers as a ‘greenseer’ and journeyed beyond the Wall to become the next Three-Eyed Raven. While disability has traditionally been linked to the ambiguous powers of the seer, there is also a strong tradition for this not to be associated with kingship. Then there is the nature of Bran himself. In some ways Bran has remained a child, avoiding normal human relationships and the usual progression of life; at the same time, however, Bran is an old man, with hints of omniscience, longevity and even immortality. He fulfils the Jungian puer-senex archetype. Both Classical and other precedents are used to view Bran as an ambiguous and dualistic figure with whom most fans of Game of thrones can no longer sympathize.
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Decolonizing the classics curriculum in South African Universities with Euripides’ Hippolytus
In this article, the author argues that reading Euripides’ Hippolytus with a class of non-Classics students, during nation-wide student protests at one of South Africa’s universities in 2016, contributed more to the decolonization of the Humanities curriculum than the course’s focus on how the discipline of Classics was (and is) used to entrench eurocentric cultural hegemony. In tackling the ‘rape culture’, which infests many of our campuses, and its roots in familial psycho-sexual dynamics, which could result in the kinds of sexual repression, sexual anxiety and rampant misogyny, which seem to characterize campus ‘rape culture’, the author argues that a return to psychoanalytic interpretations of Euripides’ fine play could help classicists refine what ‘decolonization’ of the Classics curriculum means in practice.
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The minute book of the cape town branch of the classical association of South Africa, 1927-1940
This article surveys the contents of archival material found in the manuscript and archives section of the Special Collections of the University of Cape Town Libraries. In particular, it scrutinises the activities recorded in the Minute Book of the Cape Town Branch of the Classical Association of South Africa, 1927-1940. The details found in the Minute Book shed valuable light on the teaching and research of classical antiquity in South Africa in the early part of the twentieth century, illuminating a lesser-known period of the history of the Classical Association of South Africa.
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E-ISSN: 2079-2883
© Publisher: University of Stellenbosch

E-ISSN: 2079-2883
© Publisher: University of Stellenbosch