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Childhood companions: children and animal companions on attic red-figure vases
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In ancient Greece, children and animals found themselves on the periphery of social importance, more closely grouped with slaves than with their older male citizens. This lack of importance has resulted in ... -
Classical antiquities in Durban: A study of two collections
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: A recent survey has shown that there are approximately seventeen collections of classical antiquities in South African museums which fall into two main categories: museums attached to higher education ... -
Drawing the divide : the nature of Athenian identity as reflected in the depiction of the „other‟ in Attic red-figure vase painting in the fifth century BCE
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During the fifth century BCE there were three defining periods in Athenian history that challenged its society: the Persian Wars (490 – 479 BCE); Periclean Athens (mid-fifth century); and the Peloponnesian ... -
The feminine Other in Euripides’ Hecuba : exploring tensions in the masculine classical polis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores how the feminine Other is used by Euripides in the Hecuba to highlight certain tensions between an aristocratic ideal of manliness and a classical democratic masculinity in the fifth ... -
From sacrilege to violence : the rape of Cassandra on Attic vases c. 575-400 BCE
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Sack of Troy or Ilioupersis, is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature which tells of the violent and ruthless Greeks that pillaged the city of Troy. It was a prevalent theme in ancient Attic art, ... -
Growing up Greek : the differing journeys through childhood in ancient Athens and Sparta
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Athens and Sparta were the two most prominent city-states during the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, but their socio-political systems differed markedly. As a result of such radical differences it could be ... -
Never simply nudity
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Recent studies regarding the motif of the nude female figure on Athenian red-figure vases of the 5th century BCE have caused much controversy among contemporary scholars. Whereas the nude male figure on ... -
Orphan artefacts : investigating classical objects in the Iziko collection, Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since 1998 a collection of 238 classical antiquities, many of which were previously on display for over a century, has been in storage in the Iziko Social History Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. These ...
