South Africa, Greece, Rome (eBook, ePUB)

Classical Confrontations
Redaktion: Parker, Grant

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How have ancient Greece and Rome intersected with South African histories? This book canvasses architecture, literature, visual arts and historical memory. Some of the most telling manifestations of classical reception in South Africa have been indirect, for example neo-classical architecture or retellings of mythical stories. Far from being the mere handmaiden of colonialism (and later apartheid), classical antiquity has enabled challenges to the South African establishment, and provided a template for making sense of cross-cultural encounters. Though access to classical education has been limited, many South Africans, black and white, have used classical frames of reference and drawn inspiration from the ancient Greeks and Romans. While classical antiquity may seem antithetical to post-apartheid notions of heritage, it deserves to be seen in this light. Museums, historical sites and artworks, up to the present day, reveal juxtapositions in which classical themes are integrated into South African pasts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108206433
• Artikelnr.: 54121864

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Azanian Muse: classicism in unexpected places Grant Parker; Part I.
Conceiving Empire: 2. 'Poetry in pidgin': notes on the persistence of
classicism in the architecture of Johannesburg Federico Freschi; 3. Cecil
John Rhodes, the classics, and imperialism John Hilton; 4. The
'Mediterranean' Cape: reconstructing an ethos Peter Merrington; Part II.
Conceiving the Nation: 5. 'Copy nothing': classical ideals and Afrikaner
ideologies at the Voortrekker Monument Elizabeth Rankin and Rolf Michael
Schneider; 6. Greeks, Romans, and Volks-education in the Afrikaner
Kinderensiklopedie Philip R. Bosman; Part III. Law, Virtue and
Truth-Telling: 7. A competing discourse on empire Jonathan Allen; 8. After
Cicero: legal thought from antiquity to the New Constitution Deon H. van
Zyl; Part IV. Cultures of Collecting: 9. Museum space and displacement:
collecting classical antiquities in South Africa Samantha Masters; 10.
Antique casts for a colonial gallery: the Beit bequest of classical
statuary to Cape Town Anna Tietze; 11. Cecil Rhodes as a reader of the
classics: the Groote Schuur collection David Wardle; Part V. Boundary
Crossers: 12. 'You are people like these Romans were!': D. D. T. Jabavu of
Fort Hare Jo-Marie Claassen; 13. Benjamin Farrington and the science of the
swerve John Atkinson; 14. Athens and apartheid: Mary Renault and classics
in South Africa Nikolai Endres; 15. Antiquity's undertone: classical
resonances in the poetry of Douglas Livingstone Kathleen M. Coleman; Part
VI. After Apartheid: 16. Bacchus at Kirstenbosch: reflections of a play
director Roy Sargeant; 17. The reception of the Electra myth in Yaël
Farber's Molora Elke Steinmeyer; 18. Classical heritage? By the way of an
afterword Grant Parker.