The teaching and research of the Classics in South Africa are deeply rooted in the racial, political and educational inequalities which have characterised its t

The teaching and research of the Classics in South Africa are deeply rooted in the racial, political and educational inequalities which have characterised its t

This book explores how since colonial times South Africa has created its own vernacular classicism, both in creative media and everyday life.

An Open Access edition of this book will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press and African Minds websites Though Greco-Roman antiquity (

Literary Connections between South Africa and the Lusophone World connects literatures and cultures of South Africa and the Portuguese-speaking nations of Afric