Charistion CPT Naude

ISBN O 86981 796 5

Charl Pierre Theron Naude, member of the SA Akademie vir Wetenkamp en Kuns and Correspondent der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, was born on 17 August 1912 at Aliwal North as the second son of the late Rev. W.J. Naude. After matriculating at age sixteen he worked in Johannesburg in the civil service while studying part-time at the University of the Witwatersrand where T.J. Haarhoff was his principal mentor. In 1936 he obtained the BA degree with Greek and Latin as his majors, and in the following year the BA Hons degree in Greek and Latin literature. The Transvaal Education Diploma followed in 1939.

In 1940 he was awarded a university post-graduate scholarship with a view to furthering his studies overseas, but the war prevented him from availing himself of this grant at the time. While employed as lecturer in the Department of Classics of the University of the Witwatersrand he obtained the MA degree cum laude in 1943, with a dissertation entitled 'The Problem of the Ciris'. In 1946 he could eventually continue his studies at St. John's College of the University of Oxford where the BA Hons degree in Literae Humaniores, with Ancient History and Philosophy as majors, was awarded him in 1948. After returning to South Africa, he resumed his connection with the Department of Classics of his previous Alma Mater, first as lecturer, from 1949 till 1952, and then as senior lecturer, from 1953 till 1956. In the meantime, he continued his academic studies, completing his doctoral examination (doktoraal) at the University of Leiden in 1955 in the subjects Ancient History, Greek and Archaeology.

In the following year the degree DLitt et Phil (Leiden) was conferred on him for a thesis entitled 'Ammianus Marcellinus in die lig van die Antieke Geskiedskrywing', with Professor W. den Boer as promoter. His career as academic teacher in Ancient History and Historiography, however, only commenced in 1959, when he accepted an appointment as senior lecturer in the Department of Classics at the University of South Africa. In acknowledgement of his singular academic merits he was promoted to a professorship in Ancient History and Historiography in 1 963, to the first chair 'historiarum rerum Graecarum et Romanarum' in this country. He held this position until his retirement as professor honorarius at the end of 1977. However, the Department of Classics continued to make use of his wide experience and ready advice in both teaching and research, and even now, in 1992, he is associated with it in various functions. In spite of pioneering countless study guides on the history of the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome as well as ancient historiography, and in spite of the at times overwhelming administrative burden which he had to take upon himself as Head of the Department of Classics and as one of the founders of Acta Classica, the Proceedings of the Classical Association of South Africa*, he still made time for the publications and reviews listed below. All of these, as also the post-graduate research projects which he initiated, testify to his intense and at the same time differentiated interest in the whole field of classical studies. Apart from this, the many students at all levels whom this doyen of ancient history and historiography taught and inspired found him to be somebody who was at no time chary of giving assistance and encouragement. Above all, his colleagues and students past and present will always remember the humanitas and genuine concern which characterized his relations with them.

CONTENTS • INHOUD

U. Vogel-Weidemann 1 C.P.T. Naudé ob diem natalem octogesimum

John Atkinson 5 Troubled Spirits in Persepolis

Pedro Barceló 17 Überlegungen zur Herkunft des Ammianus Marcellinus

G.Cipolla 25 The Homeric Pandareos - A historical personage?

Richard J. Evans 29 The Sources of Appian's Bella Civilia for the 80's BC

Paul Hasse 39 Die Begin van die Romeinse Wêreldheerskappy by Polybius en Livius

Marc Kleijwegt 45 Young Men on the Council of Ostia

Gottfried Mader 63 Good Rulers and Bad: Shifting Paradigms in Seneca, De Clementia 1.8.2-7

Klaus Rosen 73 Marc Aurel und die Christliche Apokalyptik im zweiten Jahrhundert (Historia Augusta, Vita Marci 13.6)

D.B. Saddington 87 Preparing to Become Roman - The 'Romanization' of Deiotarus in Cicero

Jan Scholtemeijer 99 Historia Augusta: The 'Nomen Antoninorum' Theme

Hagith Sivan 113 Ammianus' Terminus and the Accession of Theodosius I

Adrian Tronson 121 The Plataean Eleutheria and the 'Day of the Vow' in South Africa: A Historical Parallel and the Case for Historical Analogy