Polemic in ancient Historiography, Literature, and Culture

Supplementum XI of Acta Classica: Proceedings of the Classical Association of South Africa
Edited by Tom Stevenson

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aclass.treasurer@casa-kvsa.org.za

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The first comprehensive discussion of polemic in ancient historiography, literature, and culture by 17 prominent scholars from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, Europe, the UK, and the USA.

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Project Overview

The volume aims to explore perceptions and aspects of (im)migration during the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, with a special (but not exclusive) focus on the role democracies played in the lives of (im)migrants and how (im)migrants affected host communities. We welcome contributions that examine individuals or groups of peopleexiting and entering communities governed by any form of democratic or participatory constitution within the Greek world and its periphery.

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† Pieter Jacobus Conradie: 7 February 1931 – 21 November 2021

South African Classics is the poorer with the passing, in his ninety-first year, of Piet Conradie, professor emeritus of Greek at Stellenbosch, doyen of scholarly reception studies of Greek drama in South Africa, but also the kindly and beloved “Piet Grieks” to generations of Dutch Reformed theological students at Stellenbosch.

After one year at the University of Cape Town, Conradie transferred to Stellenbosch, achieving a BA degree cum laude (Greek and Latin, with minors in History and Afrikaans) in 1950, and continuing immediately with his graduate studies (1951), while also embarking on a first stint of teaching.

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We advertise a new novel by Professor Emeritus David Pike.

Synopsis: Two women commit suicide nearly 3000 years apart, one in ancient Carthage (in Tunisia), one in South Africa in the very violent year 1989; and the events leading up to and following the two suicides are portrayed. There are two story-lines: the modern South African one and the Carthaginian one, the latter written by one of the modern characters (so there is a novel-within-the-novel, with the two story-lines intertwining with each other).

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Classicists in South Africa, especially those connected to the University of KwaZulu-Natal, will be saddened to learn of the death of Dr. Ann Moreton Delany (12 September 1945 – 31 December 2021).

Ann completed her BA degree at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1968. She then moved to South Africa in 1969. After raising a family she returned to her studies and obtained her Honours degree in 1991, a Masters in 1994, writing a thesis on Tacitus’ portrayal of women in the Annals under the supervision of Mrs Anne Gosling, and finally a PhD also at the University of Natal on women in the Histories of Herodotus in 2001 under the supervision of Prof.

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