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  • Title: Pieter Jacobus Conradie: An Appreciation
  • Author : Acta Classica
  • Release Date : January 01, 2008
  • Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 50 KB

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Pieter Jacobus Conradie is one of the few Afrikaans-speaking male South African Classicists who came to the discipline because of love for the Classics and not because of a calling to the ministry. That is, he did not discover Greek at university when starting theological studies, but was already inspired at school by his Latin teacher to a life-long love affair with the ancient world. It was during Piet's stint at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands that this love affair found a new direction: Greek mythology as it was told and retold in dramatic form, not only by the ancients, but as it still is today, and even in modern African theatre. As eldest son of a Dutch Reformed minister, the young Piet Conradie had a varied schooling, as the family moved from manse to manse. He was born in Grahamstown on February 1931, lived in Loxton in the Karoo for a short while, and then the family moved to Rondebosch in the Cape. Piet matriculated at the Nassau High School in Rondebosch, after which he enrolled for a BA at the University of Cape Town. The late Professor J.P.J. Van Rensburg, Conradie's predecessor in the Chair of Greek at the University of Stellenbosch, on occasion told of the concern with which the elder Conradie came to consult him about his son's apparently rather futile choice of career: he wanted to become a 'Classics lecturer'. Young Piet was to prove his father's concern gloriously fruitless, for the brilliant young undergraduate, who moved from the University of Cape Town to Stellenbosch after his first year, passed his BA with Greek and Latin cum laude at the University of Stellenbosch (1950), and went on to graduate studies, ending with a D. Litt. et Phil. from Utrecht (1958).


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