[First posted in AWOL 28 December 2013, updated 23 September 2020]
Acta Classica: Proceedings of the Classical
Association of South Africa
ISSN:
0065-1141 [print]
ISSN: 2227-538X [online]
Acta Classica
(ISSN 0065-1141) publishes
articles (536), notes (162), and reviews (107). The language of publication is mainly English (650),
but many contributions have also been written in
Afrikaans (72), German
(62), French (11), Dutch (9), Latin (5), and Italian (2).
Acta Classica is an
international journal. It has published work by scholars residing in
South Africa (550), the United States of America (69), the United
Kingdom of Great Britain (38), Canada (38), Australia
(35), Germany (26), The Netherlands (13), Rhodesia and Nyasaland / Zimbabwe / Tanzania (11), Belgium
(5), New Zealand (4), Italy (4), Israel (3), Poland (2), Greece (2), France (2), and
Japan (1).
The journal publishes work
in all fields of Classics, from textual criticism (37) to the Classical
Tradition / Reception Studies (17). Many contributions have been made in
the field of Ancient History (approximately 188), but the majority have
been literary in nature (305). Further contributions have been made in
the field of Ancient Philosophy (42) and Ancient Religion (14). Some interesting work has also been done
in the history of Classical Scholarship -- including the work of South African
Classics scholars (52)
--
Lexicography (19), Epigraphy (12), Art (10),
and
Archaeology (2). There have also been articles in such diverse
areas of study as Research
Methodology in Classics (3) and Byzantine / Medieval Studies (18).
The longest article published in the journal, written in German,
runs to over fifty pages, the shortest to just five, but on average
articles are in the region of thirteen to fifteen pages in length.
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