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DIE OORLEWING VAN DIE KLASSIEKE LETTERKUNDE GEDURENDE DIE KLASSIEKE OUDHEID
Full text link"Die tekste van die Griekse en Latynse outeurs het nie sommer uit die lug op ons lessenaarsgeval nie" is 'n uitspraak wat seker al baie keer in klas- en lesingkamers gebruik is om skoliereen studente onder die indruk te bring van die wonderbaarlike oorlewing van die literere skattevan die Klassieke wereld. Maar nadat die studerende gehoor na behore belndruk is, word met diemeer dringende taak van bestudering van die onderhawige teks voortgega.an. Die verhaal van dielang en gevaarlike reis van die antieke manuskripte, wat in baie gevalle herinner aan diewedervaringe van 'n Aeneas (jato profugus ...• multum ... et terris iactatu.s et alto, multa quoqueet bello pass us, Verg. Aen. 1.1-5), word in enkele sinne afgemaak of geheel en al verswy
BLAMING AGAMEMNON MORAL CONFLICT AND THE FIRST CHORAL SEQUENCE OF AESCHYLUS' AGAMEMNON
Full text linkConsider the following questions: is moral value subject to luck?2 How should we understandand cope with moral conflict?3 What do lines 40-263 of Aeschylus' Agamemnon mean, and whydo the Chorus sing them? Martha Nussbaum in her recent book4 answers these questions andsees a deep connection between them. The sub-title of her book is "Luck and Ethics in Greekphilosophy and tragedy" and in Chapter 2 she argues that the first choral sequence of Ag.answers the second question and gives a partial answer to the first. She also claims thatAeschylus has been misunderstood because of misguided modem philosophical assumptionsconcerning the two questions
DIE GOUE VERSE VAN PUTHAGORAS
Full text linkDie Goue verse (Xpvcra €nn) van die Puthagoreers is 'n kort gedig van 71 heksameters watmore1e en godsdienstige voorskrifte bevat. Alhoewe1 dit vandag relatief onbekend is, selfs onderklassici, was dit baie gewild en hoogaangeskrewe in die Antieke. In hierdie artike1 sal gepoogword om sommige van die redes hiervoor aan te toon
SOME ROMAN BOARD GAMES
Full text linkOf the many themes treated in clever mock-didactic poems, table-games was one (Ovid Trist2.485). Yet despite this, our knowledge is small and caution is always wise. What we know, weowe to Ovid,2 to Martial (14.13-18), to the so-called Laus Pisonis (P.L.M. 1.22lf.) and to one ortwo sources of lesser account. We have, too, the evidence of archaeology, and this is important
EDITORIAL
Full text linkIn an editorial in June last year I wrote that the question of the relevance of classical studies forAfrica has not yet been discussed in depth. Since then the changing political situation in SouthAfrica has made such a discussion even more urgent. It has become very popular to say thatSouth Africa should look to Africa, not Europe, in political as well as in cultural matters:"Eurocentric" has very nearly become a term of abus