Prologue -- The Azanian muse: classicism in unexpected places / Grant Parker -- Conceiving empire -- 'Poetry in pidgin': notes on the persistence of classicism in the architecture of Johannesburg / Federico Freschi -- Cecil John Rhodes, the classics, and imperialism / John Hilton -- The 'Mediterranean' cape: reconstructing an ethos / Peter Merrington -- Conceiving the nation -- 'Copy nothing': classical ideals and Afrikaner ideologies at the Voortrekker monument / Elizabeth Rankin and Rolf Michael Schneider -- Greeks, Romans, and volks-education in the Afrikaner kinderensiklopedie / Philip R. Bosman -- Law, virtue and truth-telling -- A competing discourse on empire / Jonathan Allen -- After Cicero: legal thought from antiquity to the new constitution / Deon H. van Zyl -- Cultures of collecting -- Museum space and displacement: collecting classical antiquities in South Africa / Samantha Masters -- Antique casts for a colonial gallery: the Beit bequest of classical statuary to Cape Town / Anna Tietze -- Cecil Rhodes as a reader of the classics: the Groote Schuur Collection / David Wardle -- Boundary crossers -- 'You are people like these Romans were!': D. D. T. Jabavu of Fort Hare / Jo-Marie Claassen -- Benjamin Farrington and the science of the swerve / John Atkinson -- Athens and apartheid: Mary Renault and classics in South Africa / Nikolai Endres -- Antiquity's undertone: classical resonances in the poetry of Douglas Livingstone / Kathleen M. Coleman -- After apartheid -- Bacchus at Kirstenbosch: reflections of a play director / Roy Sargeant -- The reception of the Electra myth in Yael Farber's Molora / Elke Steinmeyer -- Classical heritage? : by way of an afterword / Grant Parker.
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