Prologue
The Azanian muse: classicism in unexpected places / Grant Parker
Conceiving empire
'Poetry in pidgin': notes on the persistence of classicism in the architecture of Johannesburg / Federico Freschi
Cecil John Rhodes, the classics, and imperialism / John Hilton
The 'Mediterranean' cape: reconstructing an ethos / Peter Merrington
Conceiving the nation
'Copy nothing': classical ideals and Afrikaner ideologies at the Voortrekker monument / Elizabeth Rankin and Rolf Michael Schneider
Greeks, Romans, and volks-education in the Afrikaner kinderensiklopedie / Philip R. Bosman
Law, virtue and truth-telling
A competing discourse on empire / Jonathan Allen
After Cicero: legal thought from antiquity to the new constitution / Deon H. van Zyl
Cultures of collecting
Museum space and displacement: collecting classical antiquities in South Africa / Samantha Masters
Antique casts for a colonial gallery: the Beit bequest of classical statuary to Cape Town / Anna Tietze
Cecil Rhodes as a reader of the classics: the Groote Schuur Collection / David Wardle
Boundary crossers
'You are people like these Romans were!': D. D. T. Jabavu of Fort Hare / Jo-Marie Claassen
Benjamin Farrington and the science of the swerve / John Atkinson
Athens and apartheid: Mary Renault and classics in South Africa / Nikolai Endres
Antiquity's undertone: classical resonances in the poetry of Douglas Livingstone / Kathleen M. Coleman
After apartheid
Bacchus at Kirstenbosch: reflections of a play director / Roy Sargeant
The reception of the Electra myth in Yael Farber's Molora / Elke Steinmeyer
Classical heritage? : by way of an afterword / Grant Parker.