- Title
- Africa as Renaissance: grotesque John Skelton's 1485 version of Diodorus Siculus
- Creator
- Van Wyk Smith, Malvern
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2001
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457446
- Identifier
- vital:75638
- Identifier
- https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA1011582X_161
- Description
- Diodorus Siculus was a Sicilian Greek who round about the middle of the century before ChrISt'S birth began a mammoth history of the Mediterranean world that in its complete state of 40 books, mostly now lost, stretched from the legendary past down to Diodorus's own times. Of his Bibliotheca Historica, or Library of History, now only Books 1-5 and 11-20 survive, plus some fragments and paraphrases in other collections. The survival of the first five books, however, is particularly fortunate for my purposes, for this is the part in which Diodorus offers a seamless blend of legend and history to explain the origins of the peoples of the Mediterranean and adjacent parts.
- Format
- 8 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Shakespeare in Southern Africa, van Wyk Smith, M., 2001. Africa as Renaissance grotesque: John Skelton'e 1485 version of Diodorus Siculus. Shakespeare in Southern Africa, 13(1), pp.23-31, Shakespeare in Southern Africa volume 13 number 1 23 31 2001 2071-7504
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- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Shakespeare in Southern Africa Statement (https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sisa/about)
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van Wyk Smith, Malvern (Prof Emeritus)
RU Department of Literary Studies in English
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