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    • Aeneas se onderwêreldse reis in illustrasie : ’n resepsie-historiese studie van tonele in Aeneïs VI 

      Swanepoel, Liani Colette (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)
      Throughout the centuries artists have visualised the imaginative works of Publius Vergilius Maro in a variety of art forms. Paintings, frescoes, sculptures and even tapestries have made the wordscenes of his great epic, ...

    • Ancient skies : early Babylonian astronomy, with specific reference to MUL.APIN 

      Harris, Brian (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)
      ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is an attempt to investigate whether the Babylonians of the periods prior to the 6th Century BCE possessed an interest in the workings of celestial bodies reaching beyond the scope of what ...

    • Ani and its semantic domain in the Psalms 

      Rhode, Rubin Frank (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1991-12)
      ENGLISH ABSTRACT: One of the most vexing questions in the exegetical research on the Psalms has been the establishing of the identity of the suppliant who refers to himself as the cani. Many scholars have endeavoured ...

    • The animal themes in Horace's Epodes 

      Meyer, John Clifford (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-03)
      ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focused on the animal themes while attempting to make a comprehensive analysis of such themes as they were portrayed in the Epodes of Horace. A close analysis of each poem that contains animals ...

    • Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) en haar kennis van oud-oosterse talen 

      Beek, Pieta van,1958- (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-12)
      ENGLISH ABSTRACT: We know very little about women who studied and excelled in the field of Semitic languages in the seventeenth century - it is an unknown territory, terra incognita. In this thesis I will map Anna Maria ...

    • Aspects of Iron Age ecology in Transkei 

      Prins, Frans Edward (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1993)
      ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A palaeoecological study was intitiated mainly to determine vegetation patterms in a selected area of Transkei during the Iron Age (c. 1500 - 100 BP). Data cited here support earlier contentions that the ...

    • Aspects of the Demeter/Persephone myth in modern fiction 

      Kay, Janet Catherine Mary (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-12)
      The question that this thesis aims to examine is how the motifs of the myth of Demeter and Persephone have been perpetuated in three modern works of fiction, which are Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood by Meredith ...

    • Aspects of the family in Ancient Egypt 

      Mbokazi, Jabulani Tadeus (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2002-12)
      ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study deals with the ancient Egyptian family. Cultural anthropology is used as a point of departure to reconstruct the daily lives of the ancient Egyptians. Cultural anthropology usually applies to ...

    • Aspects of the Sabbath in the late second Temple period 

      Lizorkin, Ilya (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)
      This thesis is a study of five books (Jubilees, 1 and 2 Maccabees, the Damascus Document and Josephus Jewish Antiquities) that represent the literature dealing with the issue of the Sabbath in significant ways, written ...

    • Baboons in Ancient Egyptian art : the significance of the baboon motif in the funerary art of the New Kingdom 

      Pio, Helena (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)
      ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The New Kingdom of Egypt represented a period of imperial successes when Egypt became a world power. The country enjoyed political stability under Dynasty XVIII – XX and actively participated in international ...

    • Bakens op die weg : die bekeringsverhale van Augustinus en C.S. Lewis 

      Smit, Christine (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-12)
      ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Two literary conversion narratives with much historical detail, are compared in this thesis: the Confessiones written by the renowned fourth century church-father, St. Augustine, and Surprised by Joy ...

    • Beneath the raptor’s wings : the avian composition grasping the symbol for eternity in Egypt 

      Klop, Damian J.R. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008-03)
      A particular motif in Egyptian art is that of avians. This is frequently depicted in a significant number and variety of visual sources from the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV 62) (1336-1327 BC) and other find contexts throughout ...

    • Bible translation and the Sermon on the mount 

      Wishart, Samuel (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1999-12)
      ENGLISH SUMMARY: The purpose of the assignment is to present and illustrate modem translation methods using the Sermon on the Mount as a basis. As background to this, a brief summary of the history of Bible translation ...

    • Bit by bit : an iconographic study of horses in the reliefs of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (883 - 859 BC) 

      Baldwin, Stephanie (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-03)
      ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The focus of this study is to investigate the role that horses played in the Ancient Near East, specifically during the reign of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (883-859BC). By studying nine of the ...

    • Categorising anew the semantic potential of qōl from a cognitive linguistics perspective 

      Etsebeth, Ruan (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)
      ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis aims to provide a recategorisation of the semantic potential of the polysemous lexeme qōl with the input of notable theoretical insights from cognitive linguistics. The extant body of knowledge ...

    • Catullus se Carmina in Afrikaans vertaal : ’n funksionalistiese benadering 

      De Kock, Annemarie (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)
      The aim of this study is to effectively render into Afrikaans the impact of the Latin text of Catullus for readers living through another language, within another culture. The challenge not only lies in transporting the ...

    • Celeritas Caesariana : reputation, representation and reality 

      Danon, Bart (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)
      ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Julius Caesar had a demonstrable reputation for celeritas, to the extent that Cicero in one of his letters added the epithet Caesariana to celeritas when describing another general’s swiftness. This ...

    • Childhood companions: children and animal companions on attic red-figure vases 

      Sanders, Michelle Sharon (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 ...

    • City centres of the apostle Paul 

      Hardenberg, Benedict Ralph (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002)
      ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The apostle Paul was called and commissioned to the city centres of the eastern Mediterranean world. These city centres were places of power, trade, wealth and travel. They were the nerve centres of ...

    • Classical antiquities in Durban: A study of two collections 

      Graham, Samantha Rebecca (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 ...