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B.
X. de Wet Essay Competition
Results
2004
(Reported
by Johan Cilliers, convenor of the adjudicating panel):
Eight essays were submitted
for the B.X. de Wet Essay Competition. The
essays covered a wide
range of topics, each one testifying to a
remarkable insight into
and enthusiasm for aspects of the classical
world. In a few cases
the links between these aspects of classical
civilization and the
modern world were ably pointed out. The winning
essay for the 2004
competition was "The refinements of the Parthenon" by
Kate Pendlebury of
Rhodes University, and the runner-up was "Dionysus, a
god of the 'other'" by
Lisa Theron of the University of Kwazulu-Natal
(Durban). Lydia
Matthews's essay, "Fredrick Nietzche's conception of
Dionysus and its
reality in the Greek world", and Greg Freeman's "Myths
on the move", both from
the University of Kwazulu-Natal (Durban), also
had great merit. It is
heartwarming to see that teachers of Greek and
Latin studies can
motivate young people to write essays of such a
remarkable standard.
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