Open Access Journal: Akroterion: Journal for the Classics in South Africa. Tydskrif vir die Klassieke in Suid-Afrika

[First posted in AWOL 21 August 2013, updated 18 January 2026]  

Akroterion: Journal for the Classics in South Africa. Tydskrif vir die Klassieke in Suid-Afrika

ISSN 2079-2883 (online)

ISSN 0303-1896 (print)

Akroterion welcomes scholarly contributions on all aspects of Greek and Roman civilization. Preference is given to articles that will also appeal to the non-specialist. We particularly encourage submission of articles dealing with the influence and reception of the Classics.

Current Issue

Vol. 69 (2024)

Published: 2025-06-11

Articles

• BLACK EYES IN GREEK EROTIC POETRY AND THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL TRADITION

  Damian Shaw, Clive Chandler

  1-15

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• INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS IN EURIPIDES’ MEDEA

  Kofi Ackah, Vida Owusu Boateng

  17-42

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• AN EXILIC MEDITATION: OVID’S ARACHNE AS ARTISTIC REBELLION, POLITICAL ALLEGORY, AND PERSONAL ALLUSION

  Abigail Dalbock

  43-64

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• MATTEO NORIS’S ATTILA (1672) AND THE REPRESENTATION OF LATE ANTIQUITY ON THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY STAGE

  Lynton Boshoff

  65-81

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• ROY CAMPBELL’S TURN TO MITHRAS: MODERNISM AND THE CLASSICS

  Michael Lambert

  83-129

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Varia Didactica

• CASA Essay competition: THE EXPRESSION OF GRIEF IN THE APOLLO AND HYACINTHUS EPISODE IN OVID’S METAMORPHOSES AND IN FANFICTION

  Shreya Maharaj

  129-141

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