CLASSICAL CIVILISATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NATAL,PIETERMARITZBURG

At the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg, Classical Civilisation has been a two-year major in the Faculties of Arts and Social Science for almost 25 years. During this period the subject has gone through three significant periods which I shall outline in the course of this paper, highlighting successes and failures and hopefully indicating which direction the subject should be taking, as we chart the unknown waters of university education in the South Africa of the future