Browsing Research Articles (Mind, Culture and Society) by Author "Hilton, John Laurence."
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Adamastor, gigantomachies, and the literature of exile in Camões' Lusíads.
Hilton, John Laurence. (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.
Hilton, John Laurence. (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.
Hilton, John Laurence. (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 ... -
Cohesion in Latin.
Hilton, John Laurence. (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.
Hilton, John Laurence. (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.
Hilton, John Laurence. (University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2010)No abstract available. -
Furor, dementia, rabies: social displacement, madness and religion in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius.
Hilton, John Laurence. (Classical Association of South Africa., 2009)No abstract available. -
Imperialism then and now.
Hilton, John Laurence. (University of Otago., 2005)No abstract available. -
The influence of Roman law on the practice of slavery at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1834).
Hilton, John Laurence. (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.
Hilton, John Laurence. (Classical Association of South Africa., 1997)No abstract available. -
Peoples of Azania.
Hilton, John Laurence. (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 ... -
The role of discourse and lexical meaning in the grammaticalisation of temporal particles in Latin.
Hilton, John Laurence. (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht., 1997)No abstract available. -
The Roman-Dutch law of evidence at the Cape.
Hilton, John Laurence. (University of Otago., 2001)No abstract available. -
Scopic orgiasts and catoptric visualities.
Hilton, John Laurence. (University of Otago., 2006)No abstract available. -
The sphragis of Heliodoros, genealogy in the Aithiopika, and Julian’s Hymn to King Helios.
Hilton, John Laurence. (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, ... -
Veiled or unveiled? (Plut. Quaest. Rom. 267B–C).
Hilton, John Laurence.; Matthews, Lydia Lenore Veronica. (Cambridge University Press., 2008)No abstract available. -
War and peace in the ancient Greek novel.
Hilton, John Laurence. (Classical Association of South Africa., 2005)This article investigates how war and peace are represented in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia, Chariton’s Chaereas and Callirhoe, the Ninus fragment, Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe, Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe, and Heliodorus’ Aithiopika. ...