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Betine Van Zyl Smit

Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts

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Research Summary

The portrayal of Andromache in Seneca's Troades.

Penelope in the 21 st century: Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela and Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad

Recent Publications

  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2013. Culture, Education and Politics: Greek and Roman Comedy in Afrikaans. In: WOLFGANG HAASE, ed., Ancient Comedy and Reception: Studies in the Classical Tradition of Comedy from Aristophanes to the Twenty-first Century first. De Gruyter. (In Press.)
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2012. Jasper Heywood's Translations of Senecan Tragedy Acta Classica. 55, (In Press.)
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2011. Oedipus and Afrikaans Theater Comparative Drama. 45(1), 477-493
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2010. Review of Gregory A. Staley (ed.) American Women and Classical Myths International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 146-149

Future Research

Further research into the reception of Classical Drama in South Africa

Research into the reception of classical literature in modern literature.

  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2013. Culture, Education and Politics: Greek and Roman Comedy in Afrikaans. In: WOLFGANG HAASE, ed., Ancient Comedy and Reception: Studies in the Classical Tradition of Comedy from Aristophanes to the Twenty-first Century first. De Gruyter. (In Press.)
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2012. Jasper Heywood's Translations of Senecan Tragedy Acta Classica. 55, (In Press.)
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2011. Oedipus and Afrikaans Theater Comparative Drama. 45(1), 477-493
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2010. Review of Gregory A. Staley (ed.) American Women and Classical Myths International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 146-149
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2010. The amorous queen and the country bumpkin - Clytaemestra and Egistus in Dracontius' Orestis tragoedia Akroterion. 55, 25-36 (In Press.)
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2010. Orestes and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Oxford Journal of Classical Receptions. 2.1, 114-135
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2008. From Penelope to Winnie Mandela - Women Who Waited International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 15(3), 393-406
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2008. Seneca's representation of Andromache and its reception in French drama Acta Classica. 51, 163-185
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2008. Review of 'Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds' eds L. Hardwick & C. Gillespie Acta Classica. 51, 202-207
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, B., 2007. Freeing Aristophanes in South Africa - from high culture to contemporary satire. In: HALL, E. and WRIGLEY, A., eds., Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC - AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs Oxford: Legenda. 232-46
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, B., 2007. Multicultural reception: Greek drama in South Africa in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In: HARDWICK, L. and STRAY, C., eds., A Companion to Classical Receptions Oxford: Blackwell. 373-385
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, B., 2007. 'Medea' in Afrikaans. In: HILTON, J. & GOSLING, A., ed., Alma parens originalis?: The receptions of Classical literature and thought in Africa, Europe, the United States and Cuba Bern: Peter Lang. 73-91 (In Press.)
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2007. medEia - a South African Medea at the start of the 21st century Akroterion. 52, 1-10
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2007. Review of 'Agamemnon in Performance' eds F. Macintosh, P. Michelakis, E. Hall & O. Taplin Hermathena. 183, 174-177
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, B., 2006. 'Antigone' in South Africa. In: DAVIDSON, J and MUECKE, F. & WILSON, P., eds., Greek Drama III: Essays in honour of Kevin Lee London, Institute of Classical Studies. 281-98
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, B., 2005. Aristophanes in South Africa South African Theatre Journal. 19, 254-276
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, B., 2005. 'Medea' praat Afrikaans Literator. 26(3), 45-64
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, B., 2003. The reception of Greek tragedy in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa Akroterion: journal for the classics in South Africa. 48, 3-20
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2003. The Comic Tradition: Review of E. Segal, 'The Death of Comedy' Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity. 12, 134-140
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, B., 2003. A Christian Medea in Vandal Africa? Some aspects of the 'Medea' of Blossius Aemilius Dracontius.. In: BASSON, A. F. & DOMINIK, W. J., ed., Literature, art, history: studies on classical antiquity and tradition Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 151-60
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, B., 2003. The reception of Greek tragedy in South Africa Eirene: Studia Graeca et Latina. 39, 234-53
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, 2003. Review of R. Mayer 'Seneca Phaedra' Acta Classica. 46, 125-127
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, B., 2002. Medea the feminist Acta Classica. 45, 101-122
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, B., 2001. Medea becomes politically correct Drama. 10, 261-84
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, BETINE, 1998. Derek Walcott's 'The Odyssey': The Gates of the Imagination never close Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity. 7, 3-16
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, BETINE, 1998. The story of Candaules, his wife and Gyges: Love and Power in ancient and modern literature. In: HOFMANN, H. and ZIMMERMAN, M., eds., Groningen Colloquia on the Novel 9. Groningen: Egbert Forsten. 205-228
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, BETINE, 1996. Gyges and Kandaules in ancient and modern literature Akroterion. 41, 5-21
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, BETINE, HERMANS, M. and OCTOBER, B., 1993. The communicative approach to the teaching of Latin Akroterion. 38, 74-80
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, BETINE, 1992. Medea and apartheid Akroterion. 37, 73-81
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, BETINE, 1987. Analysing blood and gore: towards an understanding of cruelty and horror in Senecan tragedy Akroterion. 32, 2-10
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, BETINE, 1983. Love and metamorphosis in Ovid Akroterion. 28, 34-36
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, BETINE, 1983. Dramatic treatment of the Medea myth: Corneille's debt to Euripides and Seneca Akroterion. 28, 131-139
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, BETINE, 1981. Drama as 'n weerspieeling van sy tyd: die tragedies van Seneca Akroterion. 26, 14-21
  • VAN ZYL SMIT, BETINE, 1977. Seneca's 'Hercules Furens' - A Myth Renewed Acta Classica. 20, 141-148
  • BETINE VAN ZYL SMIT, Jasper Heywood's Translations of Seneca Tragedy Acta Classica. 55, (In Press.)

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