Browsing Research Articles (Mind, Culture and Society) by Title
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Adamastor, gigantomachies, and the literature of exile in Camões' Lusíads.
(Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association., 2009)Canto 5 of Luis Vaz de Camoes' Portuguese epic poem Lusiads, tells the celebrated myth of Adamastor. This section of the poem describes a Portuguese voyage of exploration led by Vasco da Gama in 1497 down the west coast ... -
Apuleius, Florida 23 and popular moral philosophy.
(Classical Association of South Africa., 2006)This article examines the links between Apuleius Florida 23, Philo De Providentia 2.22, and popular philosophical ideas in Seneca’s works. All these writings use the metaphors of a rich man whose wealth matters little ... -
Azania - some etymological considerations.
(Classical Association of South Africa., 1992)There have been a number of attempts to establish an etymology for the name Azania. Liddell and Scott offer the derivation 'land of Zan or Zeus', Casson suggests that Azania has the same root as Zanzibar, and that ... -
Blessed or bloody? Antigone in Sylvain Bemba’s Noces Posthumes de Santigone.
(Association of French Studies in Southern Africa., 2010)Dans sa pièce de théâtre Noces Posthumes de Santigone, l’écrivain congolais Sylvain Bemba a produit une adaptation africaine de la tragédie Antigone de Sophocle. Il se sert du mythe ancien pour illustrer la situation ... -
Chanting the song of sorrow : threnody in Homer and Zakes Mda.
(Taylor & Francis., 2003)This article examines the role of threnody in ancient Greece and contemporary South Africa. The main focus is on its representation in literature, in this case a passage from Homer's Iliad and the novel Ways of Dying (1995) ... -
Cohesion in Latin.
(Taylor & Francis., 1993)This article discusses ancient and modern concepts of textual coherence and in Latin. A number of ideas about the degree of cohesion in the letters of Cicero, compared with those of Seneca and Pliny are discussed. The ... -
The dream of Charikles (4.14.2) : intertextuality and irony in the Ethiopian story of Heliodorus.
(Classical Association of South Africa., 2001)There are strong but previously unnoticed intertextual links between the dream of Charikles in Heliodorus (4.14.2), the portent of the eagle in Achilles Tatius (2.12.1-3), and the dream of Penelope in Homer (Od. 19.535-69). ... -
The First Ethiopians: a critical perspective.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2010)No abstract available. -
Furor, dementia, rabies: social displacement, madness and religion in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius.
(Classical Association of South Africa., 2009)No abstract available. -
The influence of Roman law on the practice of slavery at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1834).
(Classical Association of South Africa., 2007)This article investigates the extent to which Roman Law and received ideas about Roman slavery actually did form the basis on which slavery was practised and administered in the Cape of Good Hope between 1652 and 1834. ... -
The meaning of antitheos (HLD. 4.7.13) again.
(Classical Association of South Africa., 1997)No abstract available. -
Peoples of Azania.
(University of Otago., 1993)The name Azania, referring to North-East Africa, has long been used for a wide range of political and ideological ends. Modern interpretations given to the name are typically based more on current concerns than on the ... -
Post-traumatic and post-modern : a South African "Electra".
(University of Stellenbosch., 2009)The ancient myth of Electra seems to be of particular interest to South African writers and playwrights. This article focuses on the adaptation by Mervyn McMurtry, entitled Electra, which was produced in Durban in 2000. ... -
The role of discourse and lexical meaning in the grammaticalisation of temporal particles in Latin.
(Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht., 1997)No abstract available. -
The sphragis of Heliodoros, genealogy in the Aithiopika, and Julian’s Hymn to King Helios.
(Departamento de Linguas e Culturas, Universidade de Aveiro., 2011)This article analyses the final sentence of Heliodoros's Aithiopika as a sphragis- an autobiographical statement by the author. Heliodoros here stresses his descent from Helios, as one of characters in the romance, Persinna, ...