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    Adamastor, gigantomachies, and the literature of exile in Camões' Lusíads.
    (Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association., 2009) Hilton, John Laurence.
    Canto 5 of Luis Vaz de Camoes' Portuguese epic poem Lusiads, tells the celebrated myth of Adamastor. This section of the poem describes a Portuguese voyage of exploration led by Vasco da Gama in 1497 down the west coast of Africa and around the "Cape of Storms," later renamed the "Cape of Good Hope." The narrative of their journey reveals a Renaissance preoccupation with new knowledge that surpasses that of ancient writers. Hilton discusses the Adamastor, Gigantomachies and the literature of exile in Camoes' Lusiads.
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    The role of discourse and lexical meaning in the grammaticalisation of temporal particles in Latin.
    (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht., 1997) Hilton, John Laurence.
    No abstract available.
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    Peoples of Azania.
    (University of Otago., 1993) Hilton, John Laurence.
    The name Azania, referring to North-East Africa, has long been used for a wide range of political and ideological ends. Modern interpretations given to the name are typically based more on current concerns than on the complex and long-standing relationship between the people of the region and the inhabitants of the Mediterranean basin and its environs.
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    The sphragis of Heliodoros, genealogy in the Aithiopika, and Julian’s Hymn to King Helios.
    (Departamento de Linguas e Culturas, Universidade de Aveiro., 2011) Hilton, John Laurence.
    This article analyses the final sentence of Heliodoros's Aithiopika as a sphragis- an autobiographical statement by the author. Heliodoros here stresses his descent from Helios, as one of characters in the romance, Persinna, also does. However, while genealogy (or physis) is an important element it is counterbalanced by the relativization of knowledge in the Aithiopika - nomos is king. The tension between these concepts is resolved by reading the romance in the light of Julian's Hymn to Helios.
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    Azania - some etymological considerations.
    (Classical Association of South Africa., 1992) Hilton, John Laurence.
    There have been a number of attempts to establish an etymology for the name Azania. Liddell and Scott offer the derivation 'land of Zan or Zeus', Casson suggests that Azania has the same root as Zanzibar, and that this root had the meaning 'black'. Huntingford argues that the name derives from the Greek 'to dry, parch up'. Finally, Dreyer points out that the Afro-Asiatic languages of north-east Africa have a word meaning 'brother' which may have given rise to the name. Liddell and Scott's derivation refers to Azania in Arcadia, whereas the others refer to a region in north-east Africa. This article investigates these derivations and goes on to ask whether the use of the same name for the Arcadian and the African Azania is a coincidence or not.
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    Electra transformations.
    (University of Otago., 2006) Steinmeyer, Elke Gisela.
    No abstract available.
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    The dream of Charikles (4.14.2) : intertextuality and irony in the Ethiopian story of Heliodorus.
    (Classical Association of South Africa., 2001) Hilton, John Laurence.
    There are strong but previously unnoticed intertextual links between the dream of Charikles in Heliodorus (4.14.2), the portent of the eagle in Achilles Tatius (2.12.1-3), and the dream of Penelope in Homer (Od. 19.535-69). The allusion to Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Kleitophon may have alerted Heliodorus' readers to the approach of an important turning-point in the plot, but it is the Homeric link that is the primary focus. The dream of Penelope provides moral underpinning for marriage in the Aithiopika and helps to underline the complex ironies in Heliodorus' narrative at this crucial turning-point in the plot.
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    Veiled or unveiled? (Plut. Quaest. Rom. 267B–C).
    (Cambridge University Press., 2008) Hilton, John Laurence.; Matthews, Lydia Lenore Veronica.
    No abstract available.
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    Scopic orgiasts and catoptric visualities.
    (University of Otago., 2006) Hilton, John Laurence.
    No abstract available.
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    Imperialism then and now.
    (University of Otago., 2005) Hilton, John Laurence.
    No abstract available.
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    The Roman-Dutch law of evidence at the Cape.
    (University of Otago., 2001) Hilton, John Laurence.
    No abstract available.
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    The meaning of antitheos (HLD. 4.7.13) again.
    (Classical Association of South Africa., 1997) Hilton, John Laurence.
    No abstract available.
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    Varieties of narrative in antiquity.
    (2004) Hilton, John Laurence.
    No abstract available.
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    Cohesion in Latin.
    (Taylor & Francis., 1993) Hilton, John Laurence.
    This article discusses ancient and modern concepts of textual coherence and in Latin. A number of ideas about the degree of cohesion in the letters of Cicero, compared with those of Seneca and Pliny are discussed. The article shows that Seneca and Pliny make more use of asyndeton within the sentence than Cicero, and undertakes a statistical analysis of coordinate and subordinate connectors in a selected corpus of texts. This analysis gives a reliable indication of the degree of cohesion in the corpus.
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    Furor, dementia, rabies: social displacement, madness and religion in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius.
    (Classical Association of South Africa., 2009) Hilton, John Laurence.
    No abstract available.
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    A novel compendium.
    (University of Otago., 1997) Hilton, John Laurence.
    No abstract available.
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    The influence of Roman law on the practice of slavery at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1834).
    (Classical Association of South Africa., 2007) Hilton, John Laurence.
    This article investigates the extent to which Roman Law and received ideas about Roman slavery actually did form the basis on which slavery was practised and administered in the Cape of Good Hope between 1652 and 1834. Cape slavery was governed by plakaaten issued in Batavia as well as in Cape Town, but, particularly in capital cases, recourse was had directly to Roman Law and to the Roman-Dutch writers such as Simon van Leeuwen, Joost de Damhouder, Ulrich Huber, Andreas Gail and others. These writers frequently cite actual Roman laws, especially when considering the appropriate punishment. At this stage of our knowledge of how Roman Law was used in these cases, it is not possible to say whether its effect was ameliorative or pejorative, but there is little doubt that it was used both by owners and slaves, prosecution and defence, from the beginning until the end of this period.
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    War and peace in the ancient Greek novel.
    (Classical Association of South Africa., 2005) Hilton, John Laurence.
    This article investigates how war and peace are represented in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia, Chariton’s Chaereas and Callirhoe, the Ninus fragment, Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe, Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe, and Heliodorus’ Aithiopika. With the exception of the Cyropaedia and possibly the Aithiopika, these romances were composed at the height of the pax Romana when warfare between nations within the Roman Empire had declined. Nevertheless, war and battles constitute significant elements in these narratives, although they are often set in the remote past at the time of the Persian Empire and are frequently pastiches drawn from the historians. In Chariton, Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus, military episodes have an important narratological function. Attitudes to war vary: it is an intrusive element in the lives of most of the characters, and military bravado and imperial expansionism are sometimes viewed with irony. Occasionally the romances describe contemporary conflicts in considerable detail.
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    Apuleius, Florida 23 and popular moral philosophy.
    (Classical Association of South Africa., 2006) Hilton, John Laurence.
    This article examines the links between Apuleius Florida 23, Philo De Providentia 2.22, and popular philosophical ideas in Seneca’s works. All these writings use the metaphors of a rich man whose wealth matters little in comparison with his health, and an expensively fitted ship whose costly features are useless in a storm. Such material is also to be found in Florida 14, 22, and 23, which suggests that all these fragments are related and may have come from the same original speech.
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    The First Ethiopians: a critical perspective.
    (University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2010) Hilton, John Laurence.
    No abstract available.